South Africa’s 1913 Land Act laid apartheid’s foundations.
Evidence
It was the year the foundations for apartheid were laid, the year of the Land Act, legislation that created a system of tenure that deprived the majority of South Africa’s inhabitants of the right to own land. It was the year African women marched against the Pass Laws that herded them into townships and restricted inter-province movement, the year White mine workers and railway workers, and then African mine workers, went on strike. It was the year Indian workers rose against a new three-pound tax and against a new marriage law that made their existing marriages illegal and their children illegitimate. The year the three-pound tax was imposed on those who had worked off their indenture and wanted to live on in South Africa as free citizens. Being unaffordable, the tax would have forced workers to re-indenture and lock themselves into a cycle of servitude. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 261
Categorization
- XREF: Land-tenure dispossession parallels the caste-holding basis of Indian agrarian hierarchy that Ambedkar attacks in Annihilation of Caste. — connects to: South Africa couples industrial capitalism with race as an articulating principle of social structure.; Apartheid’s township and homeland system was spatial planning engineered for racial control. — Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics, 91
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 261