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eing understood that after transfer of the farm to us
we shall be entitled to collect their rents at the same
rates as those paid by the present owners 463 .
According to the records kept by the office of the Native Commissioner
on Bochum, there were 52 families of non-buyers on the farms Early
Dawn and Millstream, in which 34 were the Bakone of Kgoši Matlala, 10
were the Bakwena of Kgoši Moloto, while 8 were the Batlokwa 464 .
Although the authorities warned the buyers not to eject the non-buyers, it
appeared that the buyers were anxious to have the non-buyers expelled
from their bought farms, but were restricted by the authorities not to do
so. In the above example of Early Dawn and Millstream, the buyers
apparently frequented the office of the Native Commissioner and pressed
for the expulsion of the non-buyers. In one of the letters to the
Commissioner’s office in Pietersburg, the Bochum Assistant Native
Affairs Commissioner indicated the pressure he was under and that the
anxious buyers of Early Dawn and Millstream had agreed to allow the 52
families of non-buyers to stay only for one year 465 . This letter dated 17
January 1945, continued as follows, “Headman Ngoepe and his followers
463 Volume 2/2/42, Part 1, Purchase of Farms Early Dawn 995 and Millstream no. 996. Bakone
Tribe under Chief Sekgoare Matlala.
464 Volume 2/2/42, Part 1, Purchase of Farms Early Dawn 995 and Millstream no. 996. Bakone
Tribe under Chief Sekgoare Matlala.
465 Ibid.
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