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Introducing CSR - The Missing Ingredient in the Land Reform Recipe? [PDF]

Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2014
In reaction to the unequal land ownership brought about by decades of apartheid, the first democratically elected government embarked on an extensive land reform programme - a programme consisting of the three constitutionally protected pillars ...
Henk J Kloppers
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South African Land Restitution, White Claimants and the Fateful Frontier of Former KwaNdebele [PDF]

, 2017
South African land restitution, through which the post-apartheid state compensates victims of racial land dispossession, has been intimately linked to former homelands: prototypical rural claims are those of communities that lost their rights in land ...
Zenker, Olaf
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Land Restitution through the Lens of Environmental Law: Some Comments on the South African Vista [PDF]

Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2006
Land reform in South Africa and the realisation of the section 25 property clause of the Constitution of South Africa, 1996 (hereafter the Constitution) is seen as an integral step in the democratisation process as well as in the social and economic ...
A du Plessis
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Applying the security-development nexus on the ground: Land restitution in Colombia [PDF]

, 2016
The general consensus on the security-development nexus is that both are key to achieving sustainable peace in war-torn societies. However, this debate has largely taken place among international actors, with little empirical evidence about how security ...
Nilsson, Manuela, Taylor, Laura
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Restitutionary Road: Reflecting on Good Governance and the Role of the Land Claims Court [PDF]

Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2011
Although 95% of all claims that had been submitted by 1998 have indeed been processed, a mere 49% of the land that was restored since 1994 housed successful enterprises by the end of 2010.
JM Pienaar
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Chained Communities: A Critique of South Africa’s Approach to Land Restitution

African Studies Quarterly, 2021
In its quest to restore land to millions of its citizens dispossessed under colonial and apartheid regimes, South Africa adopted a Restitution of Land Rights Act and set up a Land Claims Court in 1994 and 1996, respectively.
Anthony C. Diala, Sonya R. Cotton
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Possession and Precedence: Juxtaposing Customary and Legal Events to Establish Land Authority

Land, 2019
Land restitution carries implicit recognition of some previous claim to ownership, but when are first claims recognized? The concepts of first possession and original acquisition have long been used as entry points to Western concepts of property.
Laura S. Meitzner Yoder, Sandra F. Joireman   +1 more
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Protected areas, Indigenous rights and land restitution: the Ogiek judgment of the African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights and community land protection in Kenya

Oryx, 2023
In May 2017, the relationship between conservation and human and Indigenous peoples' rights was considered for the first time by the African Court of Human and Peoples' Rights. In a case brought by the Indigenous Ogiek of Kenya, the Court stated that the
Lucy Claridge, Daniel Kobei
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Peace, Land, and Bureaucracy in Colombia: An Analysis of the Implementation of the Victims and Land Restitution Law from a Multiscale Perspective of State Bureaucracies

Land, 2020
This article presents an analysis of the complexities implied by the implementation of the Colombian land restitution policy, as an example of the way in which the state works in its day-to-day practice.
Lina Buchely
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Citizenship and land in South Africa: from rights to responsibilities [PDF]

, 2013
The anthropological study of citizenship enables an understanding of restitutive and redistributive reforms in the post-transitional context of South Africa.
James, Deborah
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