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| Title: | Land Restitution in Cape Town: Public Displays and Private Meanings |
| Author: | Mesthrie, Uma Shashikant |
| Year: | 1998-1999 |
| Periodical: | Kronos: Journal of Cape History |
| Issue: | 25 |
| Pages: | 239-258 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | land reform land law Urbanization and Migration History and Exploration Ethnic and Race Relations Law, Human Rights and Violence |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/41056436 |
| Abstract: | The Commission on Restitution of Land Rights or, as it is popularly known, the Land Claims Commission (LCC) was established in 1995 under the provisions of the Restitution of Land Rights Act of 1994. The Act was meant to provide redress for the millions of blacks who had been dispossessed of their land by racially discriminatory laws since 1913. Compared to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), the LCC appears as a 'Cinderella' Commission; according to Chief Commissioner Joe Seremane this status is determined by its lack of resources to do its job properly. This article grapples with the particular ways in which urban claimants emerge to claim restitution, on the one hand, in very public ways and, on the other hand, in very private ways. It is selective in its treatment of restitution cases. It draws on the restitution efforts of those originally from Protea Village which lies right on the doorstep of Kirstenbosch Gardens and borders the plush suburb of Bishopscourt; the former Tramway Road community of Sea Point; the former residents of Goodwood Acres and the former Black River community in the Rondebosch area all of whom were removed under the Group Areas Act. Note, ref. |
