The doctrine that land can become the private property of one is a doctrine morally repugnant to the Bantu. The idea which is today beginning to haunt Europe, that, as the one possible salve for our social wounds and diseases, it might be well if the land should become again the property of the nation at large, is no ideal to the Bantu, but a realistic actuality. He finds it difficult, if not impossible, to reconcile his sense of justice with any other form of tenure.

— OLIVE SCHREINER, Stray Thoughts on South Africa, Fortnightly Review, July, 1896, p. 6.