[1][2][3] Motshodi succeeded his father as kgosi, with historian Isaac Schapera saying this happened c.
[2] According to Schapera, Motshodi led the Bakwena to Odi (now the Kgatleng District), Mosweu, and Phuthadikobo.
[2] It is disputed as to whether Kgabo II or Motshodi led the Bakwena into present-day Botswana.
[1][5] According to history professor Leonard Ngcongco, Kgabo and Motshodi lived in the seventeenth century rather than the eighteenth.
According to Schapera, Motshodi was regarded by future generations as "a good chief".