Natives Land Act of 1913 & The South African Native National Congress lecture by Sabelo Mcinziba

This lecture contextualises the infamous 1913 Natives Land Act within the broader background of historic dispossessions in South Africa. It also profiles the founders of the South African Native National Congress (later ANC, South Africa's governing party) who emerged as the principal opponents of this Act and their methods of engagement by accounting what informed them. It presents cases of dispossessed black sharecroppers as collected by SANNC Records Committee in an attempt to offer an assessment of the actual costs and implications of this Act. Finally, it questions the axis points of the South African Constitution's ability to redress the 'land question' given its presuppositions and resultant framework.