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| Title: | Land, memory, reconstruction, and justice: perspectives on land claims in South Africa |
| Editor: | Walker, Cherryl |
| Year: | 2010 |
| Pages: | 335 |
| Language: | English |
| City of publisher: | Athens, OH |
| Publisher: | Ohio University Press |
| ISBN: | 9780821419274 |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | land reform conference papers (form) 2006 |
| Abstract: | Addressing land claims in South Africa is a demanding, multidimensional process. The Land Restitution Programme launched in 1994 has been rather unsatisfactory. The essays in this book attempt to give political, sociological, geographical, anthropological, legal, historical and agricultural economic perspectives on the problems involved. The collection is based on a selection of papers from an interdisciplinary conference held outside Cape Town in September 2006. The Introduction is by C. Walker, A. Bohlin, R. Hall, T. Kepe. Part 1, Contextual, comparative and legal perspectives, contains essays on the parameters and practices of land restitution in South Africa (R. Hall); comparative issues in land restitution (D. Fay, D. James); the role of the courts in broadening the scope of restitution (H. Mostert). Part 2, Restitution voices: memory, contestation, reconstruction, looks at urban restitution at Black River, Cape Town (U. Dhupelia-Mesthrie); the Mahlahluvani group's land claims in Limpopo province (M. Wegerif); factors affecting urban land claims at Kalk Bay and Knysna (A. Bohlin); and postsettlement support in Covie, Cape Province (A. Conway, T. Xipu). Part 3, Restituting community: politics, identity, development, examines politics, identity and development in land claims and is composed of essays on stakeholder politics in District Six, Cape Town (C. Beyers); the Makuleke restitution case in Kruger National Park (S. Robins, K. van der Waal); the Khomani San land claim against the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park (W. Ellis); the ambiguities of using betterment restitution as a vehicle for development in Chatha, Eastern Cape Province (C. de Wet, E. Mgujulwa); and land restitution and community politics, and the Roosboom claim in KwaZulu-Natal (C. Sato). Part 4 looks at restitution policy and contains essays on land claims and co-management of protected areas in South Africa (T. Kepe); land claims and the redevelopment of Cato Manor, Durban (C. Walker); the role of government institutions after restitution of land rights (A. Dodson); restitution, agriculture and livelihoods in Limpopo province (M. Aliber, T. Maluleke, M. Thagwana, T. Manenzhe); and challenges and pitfalls in the new model of land restitution in South Africa (B. Derman, E. Lahiff, E. Sjaastad). [ASC Leiden abstract] |
