Ownership and requisition: the limits of land tenure in a community of Zulu farmers

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Title:	Ownership and requisition: the limits of land tenure in a community of Zulu farmers
Author:	Kiernan, J.P.
Year:	1987
Periodical:	African Studies
Volume:	46
Issue:	1
Pages:	117-128
Language:	English
Geographic term:	South Africa
Subjects:	segregation land law Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Politics and Government Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment
External link:	https://doi.org/10.1080/00020188708707666
Abstract:	The forced removal of people from the land on which they have made their homes has been frequently resorted to in South Africa. This paper addresses an instance in which a proposed removal was not executed. It deals with a dispute between the South African government and a community of Zulu farmers (referred to as Millville) over the land which they occupy. Millville (situated in the Natal sugarcane belt to the north of Durban) is an established historical community which is resisting the declared intention of the State to prise it off the land it has occupied since its inception well over a century ago. This account of how, at different times (in 1965, 1972 and 1979), the people of Millville perceived their predicament and devised a response to it, is preceded by an outline of the character and development of this community. Bibliogr., notes.