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How white european settlers stole South Africa From the Native Indigenous Black People:

The Natives Land Act of 1913

Native Land Act of 1913

Article 10

Union of South Africa

Article 10 of The Native Land Act of 1913 deals with the legal construction of race in Apartheid South Africa.

Here, Native is legally defined as any person of Indigenous African Aboriginal Race.

The Native Land Act of 1913 law refers to Natives as all Indigenous Aboriginal person born in Africa; and/or descendants of African people. Thus, the majority of peoples in South Africa was labeled as Native. This created a racial legal category that did not traditionally exist in Africa. Obviously, because everyone was Black. Many Black peoples lived there. There were the Zulu people, the Xhosa people, the San people, the Sotho people, the Swazi people, and many many more.

The Native Land Act of 1913 in South Africa served as a model for other racist, white supremacy laws on the Continent of Africa and abroad.

The impact of the Native Land Act of 1913 law was catastrophic for the Black people in South Africa. In the first year alone after the law was enacted, it displaced more than 350,000 Black South Africans from their Ancestral Lands. And it concentrated more than 87%-90% lands in the hands of white settlers.

The Native Land Act of 1913 gave rise to townships and favelas that still persist till this day in South Africa.

And this Native Land Act of 1913 was only repealed in 1991, after more than 78 years enforced.

The Native Land Act of 1913 law was an instrument of racist colonial social engineering; an instrument of white supremacy institutionalized racial control over Black people (Apartheid); an instrument of white supremacy economic accumulation and control for the white minority settlers.