The Batau clan trace their origin from the Swazi.They moved north to Lake Chrissie (known in the local language as Seoko-seokodibeng) from Wakkerstroom.

The elder brother to the currently monarch is king Mokoena in Mpumalannga those ruling in Ga Màsemothe àre the descendants of Mokoenyana.

In the 1880s emigration to South Africa was strongly encouraged by president Paul Kruger and support committees were set up throughout the Netherlands.

The area was proclaimed as a town in 1893 by Paul Kruger and was originally named Dull's-stroom, later simplified to Dullstroom, after the settlers’ leader Wolterus Dull and the Crocodile River (stream) nearby.

In the morning Photo discovered that he had been fooled by his brothers—his brothers' spears were turned deliberately at the sharp tip and he alone had killed the king.

The killing of Matlebjane II by his sons is the reason we have the following idioms today: The Batau lived at the Mokwena River for a period spanning 200 years.