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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The Promise and Perils of Urban Land Restitution in Latvia
International Journal of Transitional Justice, 2021 In this article we address the transitional justice policy of restitution in kind with a case study of urban land reform in Latvia. Contributing to scholarship on the challenge of property reforms after generations of dispossession, we examine the ...
J. Rowen, Arta Snipe
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, 2021 Land restitution programmes, as part of transitional justice systems, make victims face obstacles to prove their material and legal relationship with their dispossessed land.
Luis Enrique Ruiz González +5 more
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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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Collective Ownership and Land Restitution: A New Opportunity for Afro-Colombian Communities
International Journal of Transitional Justice, 2021 Some contemporary liberal states incorporate provisions that protect the relationship between ethnic communities and their lands. However, such measures are quite fragile in terms of effectively protecting the communities against market dynamics.
Rocío del Pilar Peña-Huertas +5 more
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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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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 +1 more
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Remedying Displacement in Frozen Conflicts: Lessons from the Case of Cyprus [PDF]
, 2016 This article examines the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights, in order to assess the effectiveness of the remedies provided and procedures followed by the Immovable Property Commission (henceforth, IPC), a mechanism that was established ...
Hadjigeorgiou, Nasia
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