History

Native Life in South Africa

by Sol T. Plaatje

Sol Plaatje’s account of the Natives’ Land Act of 1913, which barred black South Africans from owning or renting most of the land of their own country, and of the evicted families he met on the roads. Plaatje was a journalist, translator and a founder of what became the African National Congress, and he wrote the book in London while campaigning against the Act. Its first sentence is one of the most quoted in South African writing.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 8 hr 55 min

Where to find it

The African Reading Room

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #1452. In the public domain in the United States.