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ecame an official directive as part of the colonial policy of successive
White authorities. The triumphant White colonial policies filtered through to
even the remotest communities such as those in Makgabeng. Those trends
from the macro-level, interplayed themselves and resulted in the creation of
communal entities, which became villages with which people strongly
expressed their identities.
Closely related to communal identity creation, is politics as identity marker in
the Makgabeng area. The state as the dominant social actor lay down rules
in which the values of the state become the values of the society. Today,
the Makgabeng area is traversed by political boundaries which demarcate
its communities and villages into wards of local authorities which were
created following the 1994 democratic dispensation in South Africa.
Therefore, at a meso- and micro- context levels, the Makgabeng area had to
adopt the values of the state at macro-context level in accordance with the
political processes which unfolded throughout the country. According to the
new constitutional arrangements after 1994, South Africa is divided into nine
provinces, in which the Makgabeng area is part of Limpopo Province, which
was called Northern Province immediately after 1994.
Limpopo Province is currently further subdivided into six districts, namely,
Vhembe, Capricorn, Bohlabela, Mopani, Waterberg and Greater
Sekhukhune (This number was later reduced to five as the sixth district was
dismantled, its remnants attached to the provinces of Limpopo and
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