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| Title: | Land tenure reform in South Africa: a focus on the Moravian Church land in the Western Cape |
| Author: | Ntsebeza, Lungisile |
| Book title: | Competing jurisdictions: settling land claims in Africa |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Pages: | 55-77 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | land rights Church land reform |
| Abstract: | The South African Constitution requires that South Africans whose tenure of land is insecure because of past discriminatory laws or practices are entitled to secure tenure or to comparable redress. In the country's history of land tenure reform since 1994, the focus has been on farm dwellers and rural residents in the former Bantustans. A category of peoples that has not recevied similar attention is composed of residents living on mission stations established on land that is owned by various churches. This chapter deals with this group of people. It looks at how churches got involved in land issues and the problems they encountered with residents on their land, with special reference to the late 1980s and 1990s. It examines how churches have responded to pressures for land reform both before and after 1994. At the same time, it outlines the South African land reform programme and its attempts to deal with residents on church land. The case study of two mission stations of the Moravian Church in the Western Cape, Goedverwacht and Wittewater, is used to examine the difficulties involved in the study of the land rights of residents in mission stations. Bibliogr., notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
