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This paper evaluates the impact of South Africa's Natives Land Act between 1913 and 1936. This act was passed three years after the formation of the Union of South Africa to limit buying rights for black Africans. The author examines the development of rural land policy and the changes in that policy during those years in the Transvaal region of South Africa. He concludes that the Natives Land Act did not really stop blacks from buying land and that full rural segregation had not been imposed by 1936.