people were removed between 1960 and 1983: 1,702,400 from the towns,
1,129,000 from farms, 614,000 from black spots, and 103,500from stra-
tegic and developmental areas.14
The removals resulted in a great intensification of the overpopulation
problem in the Homelands. At the time of the 1950 census, 39.7 percent of
the African population of South Africa lived in the areas that became
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