The Land Question Exploring Obstacles to Land Redistribution in South Africa

The gradual conversion of a large number of the indigenous people of presentday South Africa into wage laborers, particularly after the discovery of minerals in the latter part of the nineteenth century (see Bundy 1988; Mafeje 1988), has led to a peculiar situation in which the land question in Sout...

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Published in:	After Apartheid p. 294
Main Author:	Lungisile Ntsebeza
Format:	Book Chapter
Language:	English
Published:	University of Virginia Press 21.06.2011
Subjects:	Agricultural geography Agricultural land Agricultural management Agricultural sciences Agricultural workers Agriculture Biological sciences Biology Capitalism Civil law Conservation biology Democracy Economic theory Economics Eminent domain Environmental conservation Expropriation Farmers Government Human geography Land conservation Land development Land reform Land use Law Legal rights Nongovernmental organizations Political organizations Political regimes Political science Political systems Property law Property ownership Property ownership transfers Property rights Social sciences
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Summary:	The gradual conversion of a large number of the indigenous people of presentday South Africa into wage laborers, particularly after the discovery of minerals in the latter part of the nineteenth century (see Bundy 1988; Mafeje 1988), has led to a peculiar situation in which the land question in South Africa has been marginalized. Yet, compared with the situation in other countries on the African continent, the extent of land plunder in South Africa was extraordinary. The Natives Land Act of 1913 was the first major legislative attempt on the part of colonialists to grab a substantial amount of the