In 1945 Gawie and Baba Bothma settled on the farm Kgoro.
The farm became economically viable through crop farming and commercial cattle farming.
Gawie Bothma started a Bonsmara stud.
He was one of the first founding members to breed pure Bonsmara cattle.
In 1950 he built a dam wall to collect the run-off rain water.It was registered for the irrigation of 20ha of land.
This dam was registered as the Kgoro Dam.
In 1980 Emil Bothma carried on farming at Kgoro with crop farming and commercial cattle.
In 1985 he started farming more intensively with cattle, and started a feedlot, namely Koodoolake Voerkraal Trust.