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power and influence to impose new identities 384 . The values of society
are going to be the values that the state decides. In this case, the ZAR
state used its power to impose its values of annexing land from its
previous owners and granted it to the new European owners.
The granting of these farms, mostly from the 1870s, did not involve
properly measuring methods. These farms in the Makgabeng area were
only properly surveyed after the South African War, almost all of them in
the year 1906 385 . During that war most of the Blacks had fought on the
side of the British in the expectation that a British victory would bring
political and economic advancement for them 386 . Most of them even re-
occupied the lands which the Boers had taken from them. However, their
hopes were dashed after the war when the British moved closer to the
Boers, excluding them from the new White-only political dispensation.
The war had caused too much disruption and as a result, the former Boer
republics and the British colonies still had to be reconstructed. The British
and the Boers who were in a process of uniting, regarded the “native
question” as a common problem which required immediate attention 387 .
384 J. Muller et al, Challenges of Globalisation, p. 116.
385 Form A: Diagram Forms for an Original Farm Survey, Surveyor General Office.
386 Report by the South African Native Affairs Commission, p.1.
387 Ibid, p. 3.
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