Through this Act black people were prohibited from owning land outside of designated reserves (approximately 7 per cent of land in the country). It was on the basis of the forced removals of blacks from their lands in particular that Sol T. Plaatje wrote his seminal work regarding this law,
Native Life in South Africa(1916).
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Citation: Raditlhalo, Sam. "Black Land Act No 27". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 23 February 2009 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=5786, accessed 26 November 2024.]
