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egan to sell some of those farms for various reasons. The Whites found
themselves owning massive tracts of land – thanks to the dispossession
of that land from Blacks – and selling some of the land by the new White
landowners became a new phenomenon. Black communities who were
now landless, were forced to be the buyers of land from the new White
owners who were freely granted the land which was confiscated from the
same Blacks. As already pointed out, this confiscation and dispossession
of land from Black were emphasised and legalised by the passing of
legislation such as the 1913 Natives Land Act and the 1936 Native trust
and land act by the White-only governments.
As a result of this situation, numerous Blacks got together to form
corporatives which they used as vehicles to purchase land. In the
Makgabeng area, the White landowners who had acquired land gratis
made available large tracts of land for the purchase by Blacks. According
to one informant in the Makgabeng area, Mofotoloko Mashilo, other farms
which were put on sale belonged to the government (confiscated from
Blacks earlier) and they were made available for purchase by Blacks
because of the government expenses incurred as a result of the 1939 –
1945 416 . The government sold land which it owned in order to fund its
416 Interview, Mofotoloko Mashilo, Ga Monyebodi village, 4 May 2004.
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