In 1913, the Union of South Africa — a white minority government formed by the British and the Dutch just three years prior — passed the Natives Land Act. It defined a “native” as anyone who is a ...

Many decades later, the colonial and apartheid impact of land dispossession lingers on and continues to define the current skewed patterns of land ownership and access. Legislative measures, such as ...

When Congress passed legislation in 1887 that allotted individual American Indians pieces of land while also granting them citizenship, proponents of the Dawes Act argued it would give them greater ...

More than a century ago, in 1913, a law was passed that changed the destiny of millions of African people in South Africa. The Natives Land Act formalised a system of dispossession that had been ...

Introduction -- One / The promise of the Claims Act -- The promise -- The settlement -- The problems of the settlement -- Village corporations -- Regional corporations -- Economic effects -- ANCSA and ...

In 1913, the Union of South Africa — a white minority government formed by the British and the Dutch just three years prior — passed the Natives Land Act. The Act defined a “native” as anyone who is a ...