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1 each from Botlokwa, Senthumule and Ga Mphahlele 436 . In another
example, of the 47 Blacks who purchased the farm Non Parella in 1946,
43 were the Bakone, 2 were the Bakwena, 1 was a Motlokwa and
another 1 a Letebele 437 .
Although those purchasers in each of the Makgabeng farms were from
different backgrounds, the laws required them to register under one tribal
name and a recognised chief. The result was that the original identities of
most purchasers had to take a back seat as the identities of the majority
buyers became salient. At the same time they had to recognise the
authority of the new chief under whose jurisdiction the farms were
bought. The latter requirement later brought divisions within bought farms
which were struggling to establish their new identities as homogenous
communal villages. The joint purchase of farms by different people also
resulted in the spontaneous re-creation of communal identities which had
been earlier disrupted by the annexation of Black lands by the Whites
through different laws, such as the 1913 Natives Land Act. As a result of
the theoretical notion of “shared experience” 438 , those purchasers from
different backgrounds found themselves faced with common
436 Volume 2/2/42, Part 1, Purchase of Farms Early Dawn 995 and Millstream no. 996. Bakone
Tribe under Chief Sekgoare Matlala.
437 Volume 2/2/53, Part 1, Non Parella. Purchase of Bakoni tribe under Chief Matlala.
438 M. Castells, “Globalisation, Identity…, p. 7.
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