Sol Plaatje, the first Secretary-General of the South African Native National Congress, documents the effects of the Natives’ Land Act of 1913, which barred Black South Africans from owning or renting most of the country’s land. He travels with evicted families and their dying livestock, and records the persecution of women in the Orange Free State and the deputation to London.
A founding text of the struggle against segregation in South Africa, passionate and meticulously reported. Download the free EPUB.