Moshoeshoe Essay Exam Guide for History Grade 10 Applicants must provide an overview of Moshoeshoe’s rise to power, the founding of the Basotho country, or any other pertinent background information.
Body Elaboration Key Points about King Moshoeshoe:
- Left his father’s home to set up his own chiefdom
- 1824 – his followers were attacked by the Tlokoa
- Forced to flee to Thaba Mosiu
- His chiefdom began to grow
- Gave them land
- By 1840 – had 40 000 followers
- Faced various challenges from Griqua and the Koras, white trekboers and Voortrekkers, missionaries and the British
- 1843 – Moshoeshoe concluded a treaty with the British governor – agreed on a border for the Sotho kingdom
- British went against the treaty
- Led to fighting between the British and the Sotho
- Twice the Sotho defeated the British
- Bloemfontein Convention signed
- British gave up their land to the Voortrekkers
- Led to a series of wars between the OFS and the Sotho
- More wars continued
- Moshoeshoe asked British for protection
- 1868 – Moshoeshoe agreed that the Sotho kingdom could become a British colony called Basutoland
- Any other relevant response
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