Betrayed Trust: Africans and the State in Colonial Natal

Much has been written of the drawing of the Africans of Natal into the white settler economy. The destructive effects, however, of that process on the African homestead economy in the reserves, on privately-owned land and on mission stations is analyzed in this text. This book, concerning dispossession and disintegration, is topical in view of the current importance of the landownership question.