The Native Land Act of 1913

1. THE NATIVE LAND
ACT OF 1913

2. WHAT IS THE LAND ACT OF 1913
 According to sahistory.org.za the land act of 1913 was an act that was
implemented by the government to prohibit ‘black people from buying or
renting land in areas designated as white areas.
 The government took measures to forcefully remove natives from areas
that were set for white people.

3. Land act of 1913
 Why was the land act implemented?
 According to Chabang 2019, the land act was implemented to divide
legally white and black areas.
 To provide more land for white people to use for farming and also use
black people for labour in mines and farms .

4. THE REMOVAL OF NATIVES IN THEIR
LAND
 According to sahistory.org.za , about 1 129 000 natives were forcefully
removed from their homes.
 130 000 people removed from urban informal settlements as a direct
consequence of this act.

5. IMPACTS OF THE LAND ACT
 According to Ntuli 2018, natives hand no land but had to work for white
people.
 Natives were leaving under poor conditions malnutrition and diseases
were increasing.
 At the expense of the natives, white owners of farms and mines benefitted
profitably and the economic grew.
 Natives were only given land that was not fertile.
 White farmers got funding from the government and natives were
prohibited from getting funding.

6. ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL IMPACTS OF
THE LAND ACT.
 Loss of property, natives lost their land
 Natives could no longer farm so that they can feed their families.
 Natives were obliges to work in white owned farms and mines ,and huge
amount of taxes were expected from the natives.
 Migrant workers had to leave their families behind.

7. IMAGES SHOWING HOW PEOPLE
LIVED AFTER THE LAND ACT WAS
IMPLEMENTED

8. NATIVE LAND ACT LEADING TO
APARTHEID.
 Urban areas act of 1923 was introduced
 Black people were chased out of towns and cities, they were forcefully
moved to townships.
 The act introduced curfews, that prohibited black people to be outside.
 There places also that were only designated for white people,if you were
found , you were either arrested or killed.

9. CONCLUSION
 The legacy of socio-economic injustice which was inherited from the Natives
Land Act of 1913 continues to haunt the majority of black South Africans.
The land dispossession of the indigenous people of South Africa under this
Act caused poverty which is still prevalent in our country today.
 Many South Africans, especially black South Africans, are trapped in a cycle
of poverty that emerged as a result of our history of colonialism and
apartheid. The interrogation of the unsettling discourse on land in South
Africa as well as the continuous poverty cycle is fundamental for offering
empowering possibilities for the poor.
 As such, the role played by the South African churches to support and/or
oppose the Natives Land Act of 1913 cannot be ignored. The main question
engaged with in the present text is: if the issue of poverty, as foregrounded
in the discourse of land and within the ecclesial discussion, is engaged with
from a historico-ecclesiastical2 perspective, could the discourse provide a
valuable contribution towards poverty alleviation in South Africa?

10. REFERENCE
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 https://www.sahistory.org.za/dated-event/native-land-act-passed
 https://www.gov.za/1913-natives-land-act-centenary
 http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1017-04992013000200020