When Bechuanaland came under British control in 1886, Morkweng was designated a Native Reserve, with an area that by the late 1950s was estimated to be 160,000 morgen in extent.
The Morokweng crater (or Morokweng impact structure) is an impact crater buried beneath the Kalahari Desert near the town of Morokweng in South Africa's North West province, close to the border with Botswana.