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Native Life in South Africa
About this book
Native Life in South Africa (1916) is a book by Solomon T. Plaatje. Written while Plaatje was serving as General Secretary of the South African Native National Congress, the work shows the influence of American activist and socialist historian W. E. B. Du Bois, whom Plaatje met and befriended. Using historical analysis and firsthand accounts from native South Africans, Plaatje exposes the cruelty of colonialism and analyzes the significance of the 1913 Natives' Land Act. "Awaking on Friday morning, June 20, 1913, the South African Native found himself, not actually a slave, but a pariah in the land of his birth." Native Life in South Africa begins with the passage of the 1913 Natives' Land Act, which made it illegal for Black South Africans to lease and purchase land outside of government designated reserves. The act, which was the first of many segregation laws passed by the Union Parliament, was devastating to millions of poor South African natives, most of whom relied on leasing land from white farmers to survive. Native Life in South Africa is a classic of South African literature reimagined for modern readers.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- (A) Who is the Author?
- (B) Prologue
- I. A Retrospect
- II. The Grim Struggle between Right and Wrong, and the Latter Carries the Day
- III. The Natives’ Land Act
- IV. One Night with the Fugitives
- V. Another Night with the Sufferers
- VI. Our Indebtedness to White Women
- VII. Persecution of Coloured Women in the Orange Free State
- VIII. At Thaba Ncho: A Secretarial Fiasco
- IX. The Fateful 13
- X. Dr. Abdurahman, President of the A.P.O. / Dr. A. Abdurahman, M.P.C.
- XI. The Natives’ Land Act in Cape Colony
- XII. The Passing of Cape Ideals
- XIII. Mr. Tengo-Jabavu, the Pioneer Native Pressman
- XIV. The Native Congress and the Union Government
- XV. The Kimberley Congress / The Kimberley Conference
- XVI. The Appeal for Imperial Protection
- XVII. The London Press and the Land Act
- XVIII. The P.S.A. and Brotherhoods
- XIX. Armed Natives in the South African War
- XX. The South African Races and the European War
- XXI. Coloured People’s Help Rejected / The Offer of Assistance by the South African Coloured Races Rejected
- XXII. The South African Boers and the European War
- XXIII. The Boer Rebellion
- XXIV. Piet Grobler
- Epilogue
- Report of the Lands Commission
- A Note About the Author
- A Note from the Publisher