‘This law makes us dogs, stray dogs for all time’1 Ilanga Lase Natal, 22 August 1913 Sol Plaatje and his contemporaries described the traumatic effects of the Natives Land Act 27 of 1913: forced expulsions of Africans and their animals, followed by desperate livestock sales at slaughterhouse prices. In many places, previously secure sharecroppers on white-owned fa...