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South Africa — where land reform meets land restitution
Land Use Policy, 1995Abstract The pending land reform in South Africa represents a major departure from traditional programs designed to aid the landless tiller. The agricultural labor force in South Africa is a rural proletariat. There are few accomplished tillers and small-scale farm managers.
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Land Restitution in Post-Communist Bulgaria
Post-Communist Economies, 2003While international scholarship has generally been laudatory of Bulgaria's land restitution efforts, painting them as part of an overall success story and yet another example of the country's sharp break with communism, a real analysis of Bulgaria's so-called 'success story', particularly by the legal community, has been sorely lacking. This author has
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The fast-track land reform programme in Zimbabwe: implications for land restitution
Africa Review, 2021This study explores implications of the failure to accommodate formal land restitution in the Zimbabwean Fast-Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP), resulting in neglect of local communities’ autochthonous connections to land especially where their interests clash with those of political elites. It makes the point that this opened land reform to abuse by
Clemence Rusenga, Senzeni Ncube
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Land Restitution and Restitution Valuation in South Africa
2008This study provides a broad overview of the land restitution process in South Africa and the associated valuation implications. The historical and legal basis of land restitution is described, followed by a brief review of progress with the implementation of this policy.
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From land dispossession to land restitution: European land rights in South Africa
Settler Colonial Studies, 2016Behind every colonial and imperial project laid a persistent constellation of ideas in which rights, obligations and duties were specified to justify colonialism and establish ownership of land.
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Land restitution in South Africa, 1991–1994
Land Use Policy, 1995Recent political developments in South Africa have resulted in a re-evaluation of the position of the individuals and communities who were forcibly removed from their land under apartheid. The first moves at restoring land to the dispossessed took place between 1991 and 1994 in a pragmatic manner.
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Land Restitution and Democratic Citizenship in South Africa
Journal of Southern African Studies, 2006Democratisation in South Africa empowered racial, religious, and linguistic groupings and indigenous peoples with the right to land restitution. The main purpose of this article is to evaluate the implications of communal property ownership for the restoration of land rights and the exercise of democratic citizenship. Has restored land in communal form
Mark Everingham, Crystal Jannecke
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Finite Land: Challenges Institutionalising Land Restitution in South Africa, 1995–2000
Journal of Southern African Studies, 2012This article addresses a neglected strand in assessments of the failure of ‘delivery’ in South Africa's land reform programme, through an examination of the institutional obstacles to success in the restitution programme between 1995 and 2000. Here it looks in particular at the impact of ‘the sunset clause’ on initial staffing and the definition of ...
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Land Restitution and Selective Violence: Evidence from Colombia
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022Marín Llanes, Lucas +2 more
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Land Restitution's ‘Rights Communities’: The District Six Case*
Journal of Southern African Studies, 2007This article discusses political processes and legal frameworks and discourses in the District Six case with a view to understanding the resulting patterns of group formation and mobilisation, as well as of social mobility. The land restitution process is seen as working to expand citizenship by engendering a new ‘rights community’ consisting of those ...
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