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Boshoff, T. Boshoff, P.M. Boshoff and J.P.Strydom.;
again Kgoši Joel Mutshedi Matlala signed for the
purchase of Kirkstenspruit No. 1093 by the Bakone
“tribe” from the Transvaal Consolidated and
Exploration Company Limited on 4 December 1945;
and Rietterhouse No. 1016 was signed for by Kgoši
Pokgati Mothiba on behalf of the Mothiba “tribe”
purchasing it from Balkis Limited on 20 August 1943.
The 1913 Natives Land Act had created serious land shortage for Blacks.
By the 1936 Natives Land and Trust Act, the government of Prime
Minister J.B.M. Hertzog was trying to address that shortage, but in a
minimal manner. The 1936 Act “released more” land for Black
occupation. According to this Act, a South African Native Trust was
established for “the settlement, support benefit and moral welfare of the
natives of the Union” 443 . The Trust would also be utilised “to advance the
interests of natives in scheduled native areas, released areas, or on land
held by or from the Trust in the agricultural and pastoral and other
industries” 444 . According to this Act in which the state purchased land for
Black occupation, Makgabeng was also affected by this.
443 The Natives Land and Trust Act, Section 6.
444 Ibid, Section 6.
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