Nyorai kuenderera mberi kwechikamu chino - Highland Brigade yakapinda muHondo yechipiri yeBoer (1899<unk>1902) muSouth Africa, ichitungamirirwa naMajor General Andrew Gilbert Wauchope. Rakarasikirwa zvikuru muhondo yeMagersfontein (kusanganisira General Wauchope). Mutungamiri weBrigade akabva apiwa Major General Hector MacDonald uyo akatungamirira brigade munguva yose yehondo. Boka racho rakarwa muhondo yePaardeberg
uko pana 18 February 1900 (inozivikanwa seSvondo Rokudeura Ropa) yakatambura zvakare kurasikirwa kukuru.