By 3:00 pm, the Ndebele had ceased their attack. The Boers had lost Adolf Bronkhorst during the battle, while Christiaan Harmse's son, Christiaan Junior, had died earlier outside the camp when he was murdered while tending to their livestock in the field. The American missionaries at Mosega estimated the Ndebele's losses at around fifty.[585] The Battle of Vaal River was the first skirmish between the Boers and the Ndebele, as well as the first battle fought by Boers in the region that would later become the South African Republic (ZAR), also known as the Transvaal.[586]
