Land, power & custom : controversies generated by South Africa's Communal Land Rights Act

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Title:

Author:

Claassens, Aninka.

ISBN:

9781919895505

Publication Information:

Cape Town : UCT Press ; Legal Resources Centre, 2008.

Physical Description:

xv, 392 p. : maps ; 25 cm. = 1 DVD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)

General Note:

DVD contains "current and historical legislation affecting communal land and affidavits by rural applicants, state officials and traditional leaders in pending litigation concerning land rights and chiefly power"--Back cover.

Contents:

Part one. Introduction. Contextualising the controversies: dilemmas of communal tenure reform in post-apartheid South Africa / Ben Cousins. Part two. The Act and legislative procedure. An overview of the Communal Land Rights Act 11 0f 2004 / Henk Smith -- Tagging the Bill, gagging the provinces: the Communal Land Rights Act in Parliament / Christina Murray and Richard Stacey. Part three. Land rights and customary law. The nature of land rights under indigenous law in Africa / H.W.O. Okoth-Ogendo -- Characterising 'communal' tenure: nested systems and flexible boundaries / Ben Cousins -- 'Official' vs 'living' customary law: dilemmas of description and recognition / Tom Bennett -- Women, land and power: the impact of the Communal Land Rights Act / by Aninka Claassens ans Sizani Ngubane -- Custom-building freehold title: the impact of family values on historical ownership in the Eastern Cape / Rosalie Kingwill. Part four. Traditional leaders, power and land rights. Contested terrain: land rights and chiefly power in historical perspective / Peter Delius -- Chiefs and the ANC in South Africa: the reconstruction of tradition? / Lungisile Ntsebeza -- Power, accountability and apartheid borders: the impact of recent laws on struggles over land rights / Aninka Claassens -- Part 5 Case studies.The Kalkfontein land purchases: eighty years on and still struggling for ownership / Aninka Claassens and Durkje Gilfillan -- Stealing restitution and selling land allocations: Dixie, Mayaeyane and Makuleke / Aninka Claassens with Moray Hathorn. Part six. Conclusion. Customary land laws and zones of chiefly sovereignty: the impact of government policy on whose voices prevail in the making and changing of customary law / Aninka Classens.

Corporate Subject:

South Africa. Communal Land Rights Act, 2004.

Subject Term:

Land reform -- Law and legislation -- South Africa.

Land tenure -- Law and legislation -- South Africa.

Customary law -- South Africa.

Added Author:

Claassens, Aninka.

Cousins, Ben, 1949-

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Summary

Land is a burning issue in South Africa, as in Africa more widely. One particularly controversial aspect is reform of land tenure in the former homelands. This book is written from research generated in the course of preparing a legal challenge to the constitutionality of the Communal Land Rights Act of 2004. It combines chapters on land tenure, customary law, history and land reform and detailed case studies collected from rural communities. They explain the impact that provisions of the Act will have on current problems, that they will introduce new forms of conflict and instability, and entrench distortions that derive from colonialism and apartheid. The DVD contains affidavits and historical and current Acts pertaining to this case.