Article on the government's dispossession of Black's from their land and its policy of separate development resulting in the creation of Bantustans with deplorable living conditions
Archive record
The crisis over the land

- Origin date
- March 1973
- Updated
- 27 Aug 2019

South African History Online. (2016, February 22). The crisis over the land. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0111305
South African History Online (2016) 'The crisis over the land', South African History Online, 22 February. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0111305 (Accessed: 21 July 2026).
South African History Online, The crisis over the land [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0111305, (accessed 21 July 2026).
"The crisis over the land." South African History Online, 22 Feb. 2016, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0111305. Accessed 21 July 2026.
South African History Online. "The crisis over the land." South African History Online. February 22, 2016. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0111305.
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