Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the 1940s
… characterised the 1950s. As will be demonstrated in this chapter, one cannot fully understand political change of this … be white areas, thus restricting 70% of the population to 8% of the land area.The Land Act also outlawed sharecropping; … a Deputation from the ANC to the Minister of Justice, on 8 July 1941 At 2.30 p.m. July 8th, 1941, a deputation of the …