 Basotho people were there before Moshoeshoe was born in Menkhoaneng (c. 1786 – 11 March 1870) to Mokhachane of Bamokoteli clan, a sub clan of Bakwena.What Moshoeshoe did was to reunite the remaining smaller and weaker clans of Basothos in the area under his Bakwena clan leadership during Shaka's wars of difaqane after the rest of the Basothos have left the area.Moshoeshoe and his Bakwena clan and the rest of the other Basotho clans originates from Ntswanatsatsi in present day South Africa.