released area, noun phrase

Origin:
See quotation 1973.
An area of land set aside for occupation by Black people, in terms of the Native Trust and Land Act of 1936.
1936 Act 18 in Stat. of Union 90The areas defined..shall, together with such land..as may from time to time be acquired by and transferred to the Trust be released areas.
1936 R.J.M. Goold-Adams S. Afr. To-Day & To-Morrow 44What of the Trust — a new name for the Union Government itself, which already has charge of crown-lands and administers ‘released areas’, having done so for many years?
1965 S. Afr. in Sixties (S. Afr. Foundation) 72When the remaining Released Areas have been acquired by the Trust the Reserves will, according to the Tomlinson Commission, cover 13.7% of the Republic’s surface.
c1970 C. Desmond Discarded People 130From Acornhoek to White River there is a huge tract of ‘Released Area’ (i.e. land which the 1936 Land Act prescribed should be added to the land set aside for African occupation by the 1913 Land Act).
1973 T. Bell Indust. Decentral. 3The Native Trust was established in terms of the Act to purchase this land, known as ‘released areas’ (released, that is, from the provisions of the Natives Land Act of 1913) for African occupation.
1993 S. Collins in Democracy in Action 31 Aug. 27Called ‘Released Area number 33’ by Pretoria, Inanda might have been included in KwaZulu but for the fact that some of the land was owned and inhabited by Indians.
An area of land set aside for occupation by Black people, in terms of the Native Trust and Land Act of 1936.
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