Sol T. Plaatje, Native Life in South Africa (1916)

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	other
Producer	Sol Plaatje
Coverage	1913-1916
Works using it	3

Debates

Debate	Works
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry	2
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	1
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals	1
Long-run legacy and persistence of apartheid	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Keegan (1979)	S. T. Plaatje, Native Life in South Africa (1916)	1916	Contemporary account supporting the claim that wealthiest peasants were first expelled.
Keegan (1985)	Sol T. Plaatje, Native Life in South Africa (1916)	1913-1916	Used as evidence of mass forced migration in 1913, though its detail is treated as suspect.
Wilson (2011)	Sol Plaatje, Native Life in South Africa	1913-14	Contemporary documentation of the Land Act's effects on black farmers.