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occupied the Makgabeng area, were suddenly and forcefully disrupted by
the White colonialists’ policies of surveying and carving of their land which
they sold, in which they found themselves separated from one another.
The separation of clans, relatives and family members meant that they now
lived in separate villages. Their village identity became more salient than the
fact that they once belonged to the same clans or families, as they now
regard themselves as residents of those villages. For instance, a Setumu in
Norma A regarded himself more as belonging together with a Ngwepe in the
same village, than belonging together with another Setumu in Early Dawn.
The communal (village) identity of a Setumu and Ngwepe in Norma A
village became more salient in that context, while the blood identity between
the Setumu in Norma A and another Setumu in Early Dawn took a backseat.
However, regardless of those communal identity changes, people did not
stop from visiting, socialising and continuing their contacts with their
relatives over the fences. People crossed those artificial barriers in order to
see their relatives and they even created new relations by for instance,
marrying across the fences, in other villages.
While the fencing of farms in the Makgabeng area separated clans, families
and friends, it also lumped strangers into the same villages. The problems
which were created by the cramping of people from different origins and
backgrounds were discussed in Chapter 6 on land, particularly problems
regarding political and chiefly allegiances of those people who purchased
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