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| Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Land, power & custom (DLC) 2008489221 (OCoLC)277162275 |
| Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Aninka Claassens; Ben Cousins |
| ISBN: | 9781919895765 1919895760 |
| OCLC Number: | 867050395 |
| Notes: | 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 |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 392 pages) : maps 1 online resource (1 DVD-ROM (4 3/4 in.) |
| Contents: | Contextualising the controversies : dilemmas of communal tenure reform in post-apartheid South Africa / Ben Cousins -- An overview of the Communal Land Rights Act 11 of 2004 / Henk Smith -- Tagging the Bill, gagging the provinces: the Communal Land Rights Act in Parliament / Christina Murray and Richard Stacey -- 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 / Aninka Claassens and Sizani Ngubane -- Custom-building freehold title : the impact of family values on historical ownership in the Eastern Cape / Rosalie Kingwill -- 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 -- 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 -- Customary law and zones of chiefly sovereignty: the impact of government policy on whose voices prevail in the making and changing of customary law / Aninka Classens. |
| Other Titles: | Land, power and custom |
| Responsibility: | [edited by Aninka Claassens & Ben Cousins]. |
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"Land, Power & Custom brings together a rich combination of critical reflection and historical and ethnographic evidence to elucidate the challenges of securing land rights in post-apartheid South Africa. The authors ... make clear the relevance of South Africa's experiments and dilemmas for land rights reform in sub-Saharan Africa as a whole." - Sara Berry, Johns Hopkins University "(Land, Power, and Custom) is a rich source of material for the South African public, for legal and anthropological scholars, and for all those concerned with debates going on apace, seemingly all over Africa." - African Studies Review "The value of Claassens and Cousins' book is that the reader gets to grips with the flimsy and insecure nature of land entitlements for residents in former Homelands and the impression is left, which is disturbing, that South Africa remains an apartheid society." - Journal of Southern African History "... a timely intervention in a crucial debate on the meaning of custom and tradition in post-apartheid democracy." - Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, Member of the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa "... an outstanding collection of essays of great interest and value to all those concerned with these issues across Africa, as the continent searches for tenure security in the context of development, and for the appropriate role and meaning of the customary within democratic, rights-based governance." - Martin Chanock, La Trobe University "It is ironic that our government, that is so concerned about growing inequality, would continue to support the disempowerment of women and rural people by passing laws that reinforce apartheid boundaries and power relations in so-called 'communal areas.' This is an important book for all citizens concerned with fighting inequality." - Mamphela Ramphele, Medical doctor, scholar, and anti-apartheid activist Read more...
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- Indigenous peoples -- Land tenure -- South Africa.
- Land tenure -- Law and legislation -- South Africa.
- Customary law -- South Africa.
- Autochtones -- Terres -- Afrique du Sud.
- LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
- Customary law.
- Indigenous peoples -- Land tenure.
- Land tenure -- Law and legislation.
- South Africa.
