The legacies of the Natives Land Act of 1913

dc.contributor.authorHall, Ruth
dc.date.accessioned2015-09-09T18:27:45Z
dc.date.available2015-09-09T18:27:45Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractLooking back at the century since the promulgation of the Natives Land Act, it can 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 and through which, accumulation of wealth in white-owned mines, farms and factories. 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.en_US
dc.description.accreditationDepartment of HE and Training approved listen_US
dc.identifier.citationHall, R., 2014. The legacies of the Natives Land Act of 1913. Scriptura 113, 1–13.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2305-445X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/1590
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterfalse
dc.publisherStellenbosch Universityen_US
dc.rightsThis journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
dc.source.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.7833/113-0-721
dc.status.ispeerreviewedtrue
dc.subjectLand reformen_US
dc.subjectApartheiden_US
dc.subjectHomelandsen_US
dc.subjectRestitutionen_US
dc.subjectDispossessionen_US
dc.titleThe legacies of the Natives Land Act of 1913en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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