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| Title: | Towards freehold? Options for land and development in South Africa's black rural areas |
| Editors: | Cross, Catherine R. Haines, Richard J. |
| Year: | 1988 |
| Pages: | 405 |
| Language: | English |
| City of publisher: | Cape Town |
| Publisher: | Juta & Co |
| ISBN: | 0702121231 |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | bantustans customary law land law |
| Abstract: | The so-called black 'homelands' are an integral part of South Africa, and their political and economic future is a very important agenda. Land in these former reserves is legally held under antiquated systems of tenure and settlement. Meanwhile, an intense debate is going on over the land issue in a post-apartheid South Africa. Emerging out of sympathy for the oppressed people of the periphery and out of concern over tenure and urbanization, this book attempts to locate the land debate in relation to ground-level realities. Dealing with the question of tenure in the broadest sense, these studies point to deficiencies in South African State development planning initiatives both past and present. In the process, they contribute towards a better understanding of the structural contradictions of the national States' economies. The major area focus is on the 'homelands' of KwaZulu, Transkei, and Ciskei. The book is divided into two parts: Part One discusses the policy and practice background of rural tenure issues, including chapters on alternatives for land policy, the political economy of South Africa's land, State intervention, the context of urbanization, power relations and land-based conflict, and policy and technical options for agricultural development. Part Two focuses more closely on the freehold system, and includes chapters on tenure law, assessments of the potential of freehold systems in black rural areas, and, closing off the book, the 1984-1985 debate on freehold and its alternatives from the journal 'Reality'. |