This arose from government policy position that betterment dispossession did not fulfil the criteria of the Restitution of Land rights Act. |
The background to this whole debate is the history of colonial and apartheid era land dispossession. |
The dispossession of the peasantry gave landlords a golden opportunity to amalgamate small plots into large farms. |
Members of the middle or lower classes are acutely aware of the mechanisms of dispossession and exploitation. |
There is the structural violence of coerced theft and dispossession imposed by landlords. |
So the freedom of many white Americans depended on the dispossession of this other people. |