![]() The Land Act was finally repealed when The Abolition of Racially Based Land Measures Act, 1991 (Act No. This marked the beginning of socio-economic challenges the country is facing today such as landlessness, poverty and inequality. No longer able to provide for themselves and their families, people were forced to look for work far away from their homes. Once the law was passed, the apartheid government began the mass relocation of black people to poor homelands and to poorly planned and serviced townships. It opened the door for white ownership of 87 percent of land, leaving black people to scramble for what was left. The Act restricted black people from buying or occupying land except as employees of a white master. ![]() 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 centenary provides the country with the opportunity to reflect on the negative effects that this legislation had, and continues to have on our people. During June 2013, government marks the centenary of the promulgation of the 1913 Natives Land Act that saw thousands of black families forcibly removed from their land by the apartheid government. ![]()
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