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enforced by the new colonial rulers, the communal system characterised by
families, clans, headmanships and polities, were greatly disrupted. As the
new authorities stripped the powers of chiefs and headmen, the
magistrates, commissioners and the police, became new forms and
custodians of authority. Value systems of the new authorities were imposed
on the Makgabeng authorities and they were expected to be identified as
such. In the Makgabeng area, the small settlement of Bochum, became a
centre of power as it became an administrative hub, replacing the two
capitals of Matlala and Malebogo, whose authorities had been usurped.
Later, when groups of Blacks came together to purchase farms, new
identities in communal villages were formed.
CHAPTER 5
CHANGES IN RELIGION, SOCIAL CUSTOMS,
HEALTH AND EDUCATION SINCE 1850’s
The previous chapter focused on the political changes which were brought
to the Makgabeng area by the arrival of the early European travellers, the
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