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This resource is hosted by the Nelson Mandela Foundation, but was compiled and authored by Padraig O’Malley. It is the product of almost two decades of research and includes analyses, chronologies, historical documents, and interviews from the apartheid and post-apartheid eras.

1894. Glen Grey Act

This "was designed to set a pattern of African land-holding throughout the Cape African reserves" (Davenport 1987: 181). It "imposed a labour tax and introduced individual land holdings" (Simons & Simons 1969: 43), and seems to have been aimed at Africans only (Marais 1938: 253, note 5). Together with "various other proclamations and enactments (which were to be extended and elaborated from time to time until the 1930s) [it] laid down the rule of one- man- one-plot in the reserves" (Wolpe 1972: 72). It further "excluded property ownership altogether as a voting qualification for blacks who held under Glen Grey title" (Davenport 1987: 108). See also the CAPE PARLIAMENTARY REGISTRATION ACT of 1887.

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