The Seed is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, a South African Sharecropper 1894-1985 is a microhistorical study by Charles van Onselen. It is a profound social history of an African peasant sharecropper and his family in a racially divided South Africa. Van Onselen paints a stark picture of the relationship between landowner and farmer and its development in an increasingly racist society.
 First South African paperback edition, 1996 | |
| Author | Charles van Onselen |
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| Publisher | David Philip |
Publication date | 1996 |
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| ISBN | 080909603X |
Van Onselen details the developing familial structures in South Africa, affected by the South African War, finding of diamonds and Apartheid.
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