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For farm dwellers eking out a living in the white-dominated countryside, moving to the relocation townships precipitated an ambivalent mix of experiences. This chapter explores how gendered and generational relations and changing aspirations informed the ways that farm dwellers negotiated, experienced and remembered processes of relocation to Sada and Ilinge. The apparent ‘voluntarism’ of farm dwellers’ relocation may be located within an understanding of the necessary repertoires of itinerancy that were adopted by black South Africans amid the exploitative regimes of settler colonial agriculture, as families in the region continued to practise settlement strategies that bridged the rural reserves and the white owned farms. Farm dwellers’ relocation must be examined in relation to processes of agrarian change and its uneven implications for men and women, young and old. If relocation cemented the status of younger male migrants as breadwinners, while presenting opportunities to access housing and education, for others the experience of relocation was rather more paradoxical. For women and non-migrant men leaving paternalistic relations on farms for the relocation townships, newfound personal freedoms were accompanied by unemployment, a battle for survival and periodic employment on wages that barely enabled subsistence.