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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 It is the product of almost two decades of research and includes analyses, chronologies, historical documents, and interviews from the apartheid and post-apartheid eras.

1951. Prevention of Illegal Squatting Act

This "empowered the Minister of Native Affairs to compel Africans to move off public or privately owned land, [and] at the same time authorising local authorities to establish resettlement camps where squatters could be concentrated" (Davenport 1987: 373).

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