African farming and the 1913 natives' land act: towards a reassessment

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Title:	African farming and the 1913 natives' land act: towards a reassessment
Author:	Rich, P.
Book title:	Southern African research in progress: papers given at a conference of the Centre for Southern African studies, University of York
Year:	1979
Pages:	77-94
Language:	English
Geographic term:	South Africa
Subjects:	apartheid property rights squatters
Abstract:	Argues that this Act can be seen as yet another attempt in a long line of measures designed to tackle the problem of African squatters. The publishing of another Land Bill in 1926 which sought further measures against squatting together with territorial segregation is an indication of the failure of the 1913 Act to provide any long term solution to the whole issue. Even as late as 1939, a survey by Leo MARQUARD found out that in the Orange Free State there was widespread evasion of the laws on squatting. The Act was not nearly such a crucial turning point in black-white relations on the land as many historians have tended to suppose. Notes, ref. tab.