The Destruction Of Old Molepolole

As previously noted, in November 1933 Resident Commissioner Rey had decided as part of his plans for the relocation of Molepolole away from its two then existing clusters of Ntsweng and Borakalalo, to incorporate the additional goal of introducing residential race segregation into the community.

By the regional standards of the time Molepolole was relatively integrated. Examples of what the racist authorities labelled as “miscegenation” or race mixing could by then be found among most of Molepolole’s “non-Native” families. Even Sebele’s second wife, Susan (nee Wolf) although a Motlokwa, was catergorised by the colonial regime as being of mixed race background.

This circumstance had attracted the attention of the Union Government in Pretoria as well as the Protectorate’s administrative enclave in Mahikeng. In a 1929 study on the status of Europeans in Bechuanaland the Director of the South African Bureau of Educational and Social Research, Dr. E.G. Malherb had observed that:

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