South African territorial segregation: new data on African farm purchases, 1913-1936

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Title:	South African territorial segregation: new data on African farm purchases, 1913-1936
Author:	Feinberg, Harvey M.
Year:	2009
Periodical:	The Journal of African History
Volume:	50
Issue:	1
Pages:	41-60
Language:	English
Geographic term:	South Africa
Subjects:	landownership segregation legislation property rights
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/40206697
Abstract:	This article examines government efforts in South Africa to impose territorial segregation after 1913 by prohibiting African land purchases. By using new sources and a complementary historical and geo-analytical approach, the article illustrates that South Africa's Natives Land Act (no. 27 of 1913) failed to stop Africans from buying land. New evidence demonstrates that African land ownership outside the reserves in the Transvaal actually increased after 1913. This evidence leads to a deeper questioning of the extent to which the South African government was able to impose rural territorial segregation by 1936 and reveals the limits of white power in the early Union of South Africa period. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]