removal, noun

Origin:
EnglishShow more Special sense of general English removal the act of moving (something or someone) to another place.
Often in the phrase forced removal. resettlement sense 1. Also attributive.
[1851 R.J. Garden Diary. I. (Killie Campbell Africana Library MS29081) 25 JuneMr Fynn, Duka and myself came to Umnini’s kraal...A short time back he and his people dwelt on the coast extending from the Bluff to the Umlazi river. The Government directed their removal when the Bishop of Cape Town, who was on a visit to Natal, remonstrated.]
1927 Act 38 in Stat. of Union 316The Governor-General may..whenever he deems it expedient in the general public interest, order the removal of any tribe or portion thereof or any Native from any place to any other place within the Union.
1956 New Age 5 July 5The people of Albertynsville have been given a flat ultimatum...Another of the Nationalist removal schemes is being carried out.
1964 M. Benson Afr. Patriots 146There had been riots, with police firing on the crowd, during recent violent resistance to enforced removals of squatters.
c1970 C. Desmond Discarded People 23The lot of Africans in South Africa is a hard one at the best of times..but it is greatly aggravated by removals.
1970 Survey of Race Rel. (S.A.I.R.R.) 44At the end of 1968 there were 19 persons under removal orders issued by Chiefs.
1981 D. Tutu in J. Johnson S. Afr. Speaks 53They must put an immediate stop to all population removals.
1984 R. Davies et al. Struggle for S. Afr. I. 208Bantustan policy after 1960 gave rise to an accelerated programme of mass forced removals of Africans from the rural and urban areas of ‘white’ South Africa.
1986 P. Maylam Hist. of Afr. People 180Urban segregation and relocation..has added enormously to the number of those Africans who have been victims of forced removals and resettlement.
1987 New Nation 25 June 5Both settlements..face removals under the Group Areas Act.
1989 Reader’s Digest Illust. Hist. of S. Afr. 426The policy remained in place for more than 25 years, during which time at least 3,5-million people were the victims of forced removals.
1991 Race Rel. News (S.A.I.R.R.) Vol.53 No.1, 1He said its failure to address the special grievance of forced removal victims..would have to be rectified.
Often in the phrase forced removal. resettlement sense 1. Also attributive.
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