Abstract
ABSTRACT This article presents an historical appraisal of Botlhale Tema's historical novel about her extended family set in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Western Transvaal. Tema's forbearers were seized as children following commando attacks and raised as inboekelinge (registerees, a euphemism for slaves) in the households of Boer farmers in the Rustenburg district. Tema's novel, which is based on family interviews and some archival research, is a rich genealogical and cultural resource for understanding the experience of a particular group of rural oorlamse (Dutch-speaking blacks) and the complex identity they created. By using Tema's novel with missionary correspondence and published sources, it is possible to suggest some of the processes that account for oorlamse merger into African communities in the twentieth century.
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