سياسات الأرض في جنوب أفريقيا في ظل الهيمنة البريطانية (1902-1910)‎

Abstract EN

The question of land in South Africa is an important issue that is stabilizing, and is deeply linked to the racist practice in which white settlers have been involved since they stepped South Africa.

For two centuries (from the mid-seventeenth to the mid19th centuries), white Europeans seized the bulk of the land in South Africa, so much so that the average ownership of one of their farmers was more than the possession of an entire African tribe, where the dense numbers of African farmers were pushed to the worst quality land and the least water.

After the Europeans lived in small settlements surrounded by Africans on each side, Africans were living in separate tribal homelands, one on the other, while the Europeans dominated the entire land.

Official policies have attempted to shape African land ownership systems for the needs of the dominant classes.

In this context, African reserves have been created as a means of containing the resistance to the expropriation of land from Africans firstly and as reservoirs of cheap Labor secondly.

South Africa has defined different policies among its four territories with regard to land, until the Boer War (1899-1902) between Africans and the British, which ended with the victory of the latter over Afrikaners, and led the four South African units towards the Union in 1910 to become one British Commonwealth units.

This paper therefore attempts to shed light on the policies that Britain has taken with regard to African land, from the end of the Boer War to that of the South African Union.