Native Life in South AfricaGraphic Arts Books, 2021年11月16日 - 342 頁 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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THE NATIVES LAND | |
ONE NIGHT WITH THE FUGITIVES | |
ANOTHER NIGHT WITH THE SUFFERERS | |
OUR INDEBTEDNESS TO WHITE WOMEN | |
A SECRETARIAL FIASCO | |
THE FATEFUL 13 | |
DR ABDURAHMAN PRESIDENT OF THE A P O DR A ABDURAHMAN M P C | |
THE NATIVES LAND ACT IN CAPE COLONY | |
THE PASSING OF CAPE IDEALS | |
MR TENGOJABAVU THE PIONEER NATIVE PRESSMAN | |
THE NATIVE CONGRESS AND THE UNION GOVERNMENT | |
THE KIMBERLEY CONGRESS THE KIMBERLEY CONFERENCE | |