Native Trust and Land Act, 1936

With the Native Trust and Land Act, Act no. 18/1936 ( German as: native - merger and Land Act ) was passed in 1936 in South Africa, a law that served the new rules for its agricultural structures. This was followed by one of the Beaumont Commission recommendations. This legislation is considered to be an integral part of the segregation policy of the then Prime Minister Hertzog.

This law provided that the reserve land that had been allocated to the black population in the Natives Land Act of 1913, of 7.13 % ( 9,709,586 hectares) are at about 13.6% of the total area of the then South African to enlarge. This value was therefore not reached and remained unfulfilled until the 1980s. Still in 1972, the government bought at 1,146,451 hectares to meet this requirement in the Homelands.

In view of the fact that the black population in the total population at that time accounted for about 61 percent of this area fraction is, however, very low. The occurring during the Great Depression damage to agricultural land by erosion and overgrazing played a major role in the preparation of the law.

In particular, they sorted out with the law the use and distribution of land for blacks outside provided for this purpose reserves. At the same time the rights of the black tenant farmers were further restricted to white farms owners. From now on, it was only allowed blacks to live on white farms, if they worked for the white farm owners as employees. For the end of this land reform Native Commissioners ( Native Commissioners ) and Agricultural Officer ( Agricultural officials ) were responsible. It developed under the then customary preamble Betterment planning. However, the first conceptual ideas to a strictly separated from each land use by the white and black population came up already with the South African Native Affairs Commission ( 1903-05 ) and were consistently implemented politically in this sense with the Native Trust and Land Act.

Because this law did not reach rapid increase in area through land acquisition of the state, the migration pressure grew on the population of the reserves. This trend was accelerated by the head hardly be applied, metallurgical and work control. This selling pressure forced many blacks to seek work in salaried employment outside of their family and tribe traditionally rooted residential areas. Destinations of these migrations were the large farms of the whites and the cities, preferably industrial conurbations.