expression (. L. Comaroff 1974:passim; J. Comaroff 1985:38f.), and they now resisted all attempts to fit them into the new residential mould. They flatly refused to move into the completed houses, which were left to the mixed population-the "sell-outs," as they dubbed them-that began to move in from elsewhere to work for the administration. The government had called its creation Montshiwa Township, named-provocatively, Tshidi assumed-after their once independent ruling dynasty. They themselves tended instead to refer to the place as the "Government Com- pound," evoking the restrictive enclosures of the mine. The population of the township was said to be "naked" (ba apogile); it had been divested of the physical and social relations of a proper setswana life. Thus entrapped in the habitations of bereka, the world of rents and wages, there was no space for self-creation, no time to generate wealth in people. Montshiwa Town- ship might have been nearby, but, by a rhetorical leap of the imagination, it had been placed over the border. Those who lived in it might reside in the rural area, but they were unmistakably citizens of the realm of sekgoa.