The principal objective of the paper is to highlight aspects of the Act that have cemented the social geography of the country, and to reflect on how and why those aspects continue to impede the redrawing of social and territorial borders in post-apartheid South Africa. The paper calls for ...
The year 2013 marks the centenary of the proclamation of the famous 1913 Land Act in South Africa. Therefore the present inequitable distribution of land as faced by the African National Congress (ANC) government in a post-apartheid South Africa can be traced back to the Natives Land Act of ...
Just more than one hundred years after the implementation of the 1913 Land Act, the subject of land reform and rural development are still at the forefront of public discourse within South Africa. Much of the literature suggests that post-apartheid interventions have not been successful at improvin...
history of South Africa InSouth Africa: The unraveling of apartheid …Group Areas Act and the Land Acts maintained residential segregation. Schools and health and welfare services for Blacks, Indians, and Coloureds remained segregated and inferior, and most nonwhites, especially Blacks, were still ...
Land reform Land use South Africa 1. Introduction The Native Land Act of 1913 played a key role in the restriction of native people of South Africa (SA) to occupy only 13% of the country’s land (Feinberg, 1993, Louw, 2013). This restriction resulted in huge differences in land holdings...
In South Africa, land use is a particularly complex issue, partly due to the physical planning policies of the previous political dispensation. Under the 1913 Land Act, 13% of the country’s land was held in trust as homelands (currently communal areas) in which 50% of the black population...
The centenary of the Natives Land Act of 1913 offers an avenue through which we can rethink and debate post-apartheid land reform. This paper focuses on how this Act epitomised the culmination of ideas about state and society and also laid the foundation for the social geography of the countr...
The history of theologised politics of South Africa, the 1913 Land Act and its impact on the flight from the black self. This article is an attempt to examine the role and impact of the history of theologised politics in South Africa and the 1913 Land Act and its impact on th... ...
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This paper reviews the history of the development of land policy in South Africa, highlighting episodes occurring during the last hundred years, such as the Glen Grey Act, the British take鈥恛ver of the Transvaal, Union, the 1913 and 1936 Land Acts, Betterment Planning, the Tomlinson ...