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the state intervened in the interests of White commercial farmers. In the
Transvaal the 1908 Natives Tax Act imposed a £2 levy on rent-paying
tenants; and in the northern Transvaal some of these tenants were
removed from White farms by direct government action 395 . The White
state was manifestly beginning to act against the independent Black
peasantry in the interests of both White commercial farmer and the
mining industry.
Another important intended goal of the SANAC was to find uniform
approach to land matters in the former British colonies and the former
Boer republics, in which those territories were able to deal among other
things, with land issues. As already pointed out earlier, the demarcation
and granting of land in areas such as Makgabeng, was not properly
done. It was only after the SANAC report in 1905 that the farms were
properly surveyed, in which accurate measurements and beacons were
put in place.
The records from the Surveyor General Office indicate measurements of
each farm in the Makgabeng area after they were surveyed, mostly in
1906 (after the SANAC report). These records show angles, co-ordinates
395 P. Maylam, A History of the African people of South Africa: From early iron age to the 1970s,
p. 139.
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