SEFAKO MAPOGO MAKGATHO

We recognise that this Act is fraught with the most momentous issues, as it infringes on the common rights of the people. In all countries and among all nations worthy of the name of a free people, these common rights to the purchase and sale of lands are recognised as resting upon the elementary principles of justice and humanity, which are the heritage of a free people. The Native People, although still in a state of transition from barbarism to civilization have come to appreciate the value of education, Christianity and Social Culture. Their progress has been most marked in the Mother Colony of the Cape of good Hope, especially during the latter half (50 years) of the nineteenth century. They have learned to know and cherish the constitutional rights and privileges which are regarded by Statesmen and humanitarians the world over as essential to the preservation of national self-respect, the protection of the national honour and the promotion of the peace, progress, prosperity and hapiness of the people, which is the end and aim of Good Government.

- Sefako M. Makgatho, "The Natives Land Act, 1913: The Pretoria Resolutions", Izwe la Kiti, July 2, 1913.