sometime in the year 1865 mogale had met with president marthinus wessel pretorius of the south african republic where they reached an agreement and mogale was pardoned of all crimes for which he was charged. he settled on the farm "boschfontein" with his people who then called it bapong. mogale died in 1869 and was succeeded by his son moruatona as kgosi of the bapo ba mogale.