In 1830 the trekker moved away from the British to gain independence.

They
set up their own states in the interior which where called the Boer republics.
One of them was located between Orange Farm and Vaal rivers and the other
one was further north of the Vaal River (also known as the Transvaal). During
their expansion came a lot of conflict and cooperation from groups such as the:
Ndebele, British and Sotho and other smaller African groups. This essay will be
a discussion of the cooperation and conflict that we can see from all the groups
that encounter during their expansion.
The first signs of cooperation we can see is with the Tswanas. When the Boers
started moving inwards, they encountered the Tswanas. They lived alongside
they the local Tswana farmers by living on land that was not used by them. We
can even see another sign of this when the Barolong helped the Boers defeat
the Ndebele. This cooperation led to no conflict between the groups, and they
lived peacefully together and even assisted each other in battles.
At first, they was a cooperative relationship between ndebele and the Boers,
however this relationship did not last and later conflict started to arise
between the groups. When the Boers encountered the Ndebele, they
cooperated with the tribe. We see this when the live on land that was not
being used by them and moved northwards, but later they fought with trekkers
and Borolong for the land between the Orange and the Vaal as a result the
Ndebele move Northwards. Ultimately the relationship between the Ndebele
and the Boers was not good and conflict took over.
They was hits of cooperation with Sotho at first but at the hight of the
relationship the was a lot of conflict and ultimately they cooperated with one
other. When the Boers encountered the Sotho Moshoeshoe allowed them to
stay of some of their land in Caledon River Valley as a way of avoiding conflict
with the trekkers and losing land, however the conflict started trekkers believe
that the land was theirs. More conflict started to arise during the Bloemfontein
Convention, the British recognised the independence of the Boers in the area
between the Orange and the Vaal rivers. This gave rise to the independent Boer
Republic of the Orange Free State. No African chiefdoms were consulted. The
Bloemfontein Convention made no reference to Moshoeshoe and did not state
what the boundaries between the Basotho kingdom and the OFS were. Then
shortly after the Sotho started to raid cattle as a form of retaliating against the
trekkers. The Boers were mad, but the Sothos said they were justified because
they stole their land. The trekkers declared war on Moshoeshoe, which he
won. Moshoeshoe and the Boers signed a peace treaty, in this peace treaty he
gave more land to the Boer so that he could keep the British on his side. As a
result of the peace treaty the lived they would co-exist together in the high
veld and Moshoeshoe would go on to have his own border built around his
land.
The relationship between the British and the trekker was for the most part a
cooperative relationship, however, they were signs of conflict. The British
accepted the independence of the trekkers in 1852 with a treaty called the
Sand River Convection, which meant that the land in the North of the Vaal was
theirs. The trekkers called this land the South Africa Republic. The Boers were
still conscience of keeping ties with the Cape as they were trading guns with
them, this gave them power. However, we start to see a bit of conflict with
British in 1848 when they took over the Land in Orange and Vaal Rivers as a
colony and called it the Orange River Sovereignty. This upset the trekker
because the felt as if they were taking their independence, but later on they
handed this land over to the Boers because it would be too expensive to keep
this land and go to War with the trekker and the Boers this was Called the
Bloemfontein Convention of 1854. Thus, with minimal conflict the relationship
with the Boers proved to be cooperative during this time.
The Boers expansion was received a mixed response from every group that
they encountered in their expansion. In the end despite any conflict that
occurred they were able to keep their land, this was with the help from those
that did cooperate with them and that was main factor in their success in the
Highveld.