![]() No longer able to provide for themselves and their families, people were forced to look for work far away from their homes. The apartheid government began the mass relocation of black people to poor homelands and to poorly planned and serviced townships. ![]() The Act restricted black people from buying or occupying land. The Act became law on 19 June 1913 limiting African land ownership to 7 percent and later 13 percent through the 1936 Native Trust and Land Act of South Africa. ![]() The 1913 Natives Land Act saw thousands of black families forcibly removed from their land by the apartheid government. The “land question” goes back more than a century to the 1913 Natives Land Act, which provided legislative form to a process of dispossession that had been under way since colonial times. The dispossession of land through the 1913 Natives Land Act was apartheid’s original sin. Historical context Vision 2030 and the National Development Plan Legislative framework Progress and plans Parliamentary process 25 years of democracy Transforming the rural economy Transforming the urban economy Community Survey (2016) – agricultural household Land audit Recapitalisation and development programme Women and land Examples of successful land reform projects Resources Join the conversation
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