Native Life in South Africa — 1991 ·

Before and Since the European War and the Boer Rebellion

By Sol T. Plaatje

With a foreword by Bessie Head and an introduction by Brian Willan

First published in 1916 and one of South Africa's great political books, Native Life in South Africa was first and foremost a response to the Native's Land Act of 1913, and was written by one of the most gifted and influential writers and journalists of his generation. Sol T. Plaatje provides an account of the origins of this crucially important piece of legislation and a devastating description of its immediate effects.