jun 19, 1913 - The Native Land Act (1)
The Native Land Act allocated just 7% of all agricultural land in South Africa to blacks. The rest of the land was reserved for whites. In addition, Africans were forbidden to buy or lease their land to white people, and vice versa. The Act also banned sharecropping, which had a devastating consequence.
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The Native Land Act allocated just 7% of all agricultural land in South Africa to blacks. The rest of the land was reserved for whites. In addition, Africans were forbidden to buy or lease their land to white people, and vice versa. The Act also banned sharecropping, which had a devastating consequence.
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