1913. The act, anticipating Lewis’s notion of dual economy,
divided South Africa into two parts, a modern prosperous
part and a traditional poor part. Except that the prosperity
and poverty were actually being created by the act itself. It
stated that 87 percent of the land was to be given to the
Europeans, who represented about 20 percent of the
population. The remaining 13 percent was to go to the
Africans. The Land Act had many predecessors, of course,
because gradually Europeans had been confining Africans
onto smaller and smaller reserves. But it was the act of
1913 that definitively institutionalized the situation and set
the stage for the formation of the South African Apartheid
regime, with the white minority having both the political and
economic rights and the black majority being excluded from
both. The act specifie