Under the 1913 Natives Land Act a farmer named Kgobadi was ordered off his land by sunset, and his baby died on the road and was buried at night in a stolen grave

The Natives Land Act, No. 27, was passed on 19 June 1913. It barred Africans from buying or hiring land in about 93 percent of South Africa and aimed to end sharecropping. The journalist Sol Plaatje wrote that on 20 June 1913 the African woke up "not actually a slave, but a pariah in the land of his birth." Plaatje cycled into the Free State and met evicted families on the road. One was Kgobadi. He had been making more than £100 a year on the farm. His landlord demanded the labour of Kgobadi, his wife and his oxen for 30 shillings a month. Kgobadi refused. A note dated 30 June 1913 ordered him off the farm by sunset that day, or his stock would be impounded and he would be handed over for trespass. On the road, the kids born to his goats died one by one. Mrs Kgobadi had carried a sick baby onto the ox-wagon. Two days out the child began to sink, and it died the night before Plaatje met them. The family could not use the farms they passed, so they dug a grave in the dark, in fear of being caught. Plaatje called it a stolen grave. The 1996 Constitution gives any person or community dispossessed after 19 June 1913 by racially discriminatory laws a right to restitution or redress. The sources found do not record what became of the Kgobadi family.