The Approaching Crisis: Land and Population in the Transvaal and Natal

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Title:	The Approaching Crisis: Land and Population in the Transvaal and Natal
Author:	Grice, D.C.
Year:	1974
Periodical:	South Africa International
Volume:	4
Issue:	4
Period:	April
Pages:	195-210
Language:	English
Geographic term:	South Africa
Subjects:	demographic change segregation Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Miscellaneous (i.e. Demography, Refugees, Sports)
Abstract:	Basic to the report of the Tomlinson Commission in 1955 was an assessment of the future population of the South African Republic. The Comission's projection for the total population for the year 2000 was 31 million of which 21 million would be Africans. In 1973 a projection by one of the country's leading demographers estimated total population in the year 2000 at 50 million of which 37 million would be Africans. Searing in mind the Government's determination to give the different African national units no more land than was promised in 1936 by the then S.A. Government, the additional 16 million Africans will cause certain complications. This paper considers this problem in Natal and the Transvaal and very briefly in the Orange Free State. Ref.: annexures with figures about Transvaal and Natal population.