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THE LEGACIES OF THE NATIVES LAND ACT OF 1913

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Hall, Ruth·2014·Scriptura
DOI 10.7833/113-0-721
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Looking back at the century since the promulgation of the Natives Land Act, it could be argued that it shaped the trajectories of most South Africans’ lives. It expelled black people from the land into crowded reserves and formed the cornerstone of the migrant labour system through which accumulation of wealth in white-owned mines, farms and factories followed. Far from unravelling this history of dispossession, the land reform process has merely dabbled at its edges while the inequalities it set in place have in some ways been further aggravated since 1994. Four legacies of the Act are identified: the material legacy of poverty and inequality in the divided countryside but also the displaced legacy of urban poverty and inequality; the social and spiritual legacy of division, invisibility and failed reconciliation; and a political legacy of legal pluralism and dualistic governance that denotes zones of tradition or custom, distinct from the rest of the country. In this context, the church needs to reflect, not only on its mixed involvement in dispossession and resistance to it in the past, but also on its role in dismantling the structures of poverty and inequality, social and spiritual division, invisibility and dualistic governance.

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  1. DRDLR (Department of Rural Development and Land Reform) 2012. Mid-term Review of the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform. Pretoria: DRDLR.
  2. Gasa, Nomboniso 2013. Comments in closing plenary session. Land Divided conference, University of Cape Town, 24-27 March 2013.
  3. Haire, Karen and Daniel Matjila 2013. 'Plaatje's elevation of the down-trodden black South African mine, farm & domestic worker in Native Life in South Africa & The Mote & The Beam.' Paper presented at the Land Divided conference, University of Cape Town, 24-27 March 2013.
  4. Swart, Sandra 2013. It is as bad to be a black man's animal as it is to be a black man - the politics of animals in the 1913 Land Act . Paper presented at the Land Divided conference, University of Cape Town, 24-27 March 2013.

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Authors
Hall, R.
Affiliations
University of the Western Cape (ZA)
Corresponding author
Hall, Ruth
ORCID
Hall, Ruth
Venue
Scriptura
Publisher
Stellenbosch University
Published
2014-09-22
Volume
113
Issue
0
Pages
1
ISSN
  • 0254-1807 (ISSN-L)
  • 2305-445X
DOI
10.7833/113-0-721
OpenAlex
W1981376462
Cited by
22
References
15
Citations by year
2026: 5 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 1 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 2 · 2016: 1
FWCI
1.09
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by-nc-nd
Locations
  • Scriptura (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • UWC Research Repository (University of the Western Cape) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › South African History and Culture
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Land Rights and Reforms
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › African studies and sociopolitical issues
Keywords
land dispossession, land reform, migrant labour, inequality, poverty, land reserves, urban poverty, reconciliation, legal pluralism, South Africa

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