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The Moerane country estate: Mangoloaneng in the Mount Fletcher district, Transkei; Mbeki's grandfather Jacane Moerane; the deterioration of the family farm, Mbeki's interest in the re-institution of independent land-owning black farmers (rather than poverty relief) when he was president; the Moeranes - members of the Bafokeng who were among the first settlers in Lesotho, Moshoeshoe was Africa's first nationalist, he gathered disparate clans and forged them into the Basotho nation; Makhanoi, Jacane's grandfather, was a celebrated convert, like the Fengu he became part of a literate, progressive world that developed around the mission stations (Moshoeshoe welcomed), but unlike the Fengu were not colonial subjects; the Moeranes migrated to the no-man's land between the Cape Colony and Natal; Jacane was a life-long counsellor to Moshoeshoe's son, Jacane the teacher-preacher, very strict, emphasised achievement and productivity; Epainette Mbeki does not remember racial discrimination in Mangoloaneng, Epainette got her impetus for social upliftment from her father, on Epainettes anger at women not doing anything to help themselves on a visit to the village in 1999.
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