Natives Land Act, 1913

The Natives Land Act of 1913 was a law of the Union of South Africa that barred Africans from buying or renting land outside designated reserves, which then covered about 7 per cent of the country. It ended African sharecropping on white-owned farms in much of the country and drove many families off the land. Sol Plaatje condemned it in Native Life in South Africa (1916), and the reserves were later enlarged under the Native Trust and Land Act of 1936.