This paper clearly describes the land rights of the natives in the Cape Colony from the Ordinance and up until the Ten Point Programme and discussing the problem of national oppression with regards to the social and economic conditions and the fact that the people of South Africa were landless, voteless and illiterate.
Archive record
Land and national oppression

- Origin date
- May 1954
- Updated
- 27 Aug 2019

South African History Online. (2016, February 22). Land and national oppression. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0111263
South African History Online (2016) 'Land and national oppression', South African History Online, 22 February. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0111263 (Accessed: 1 August 2026).
South African History Online, Land and national oppression [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0111263, (accessed 1 August 2026).
"Land and national oppression." South African History Online, 22 Feb. 2016, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0111263. Accessed 1 Aug. 2026.
South African History Online. "Land and national oppression." South African History Online. February 22, 2016. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0111263.
Further reading
DISA Archive
Letter from Barney Pityana to Neville Curtis
Cape St Francis, Western Cape Peninsula
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