Significant accounts of this first expedition were left by, amongst others, William Somerville and John Barrow, with well-known watercolour illustrations by Samuel Daniell.

Kgosi Mothibi, son of Molehebangwe, had succeeded as leader of the BaTlhaping by the time that William Burchell visited there in 1811.

The early traveller accounts refer to an impressively large town consisting of mud houses, traces of which have yet to be located archaeologically.

The Battle of Dithakong was fought on 24 June 1823 between Batlhaping and Griqua defenders against an alliance of BaFokeng, MaPhuting, and BaHlakoana invaders led respectively by Sebetoane, Tsooane, and Nkarahanye.

Batswadi was born in the village in 1949 and has lived there ever since retiring from work at the Beatrix Gold Mine in the Free State and from active competition in 1986.