Land matters : South Africa's failed land reforms and the road ahead / Tembeka Ngcukaitobi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ngcukaitobi, Tembeka, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Land tenure--South Africa.

Land tenure.

Land use, Rural.

Commons.

South Africa.

Land reform--South Africa.

Land reform.

Commons--Ownership--South Africa.

Land use, Rural--South Africa.

Physical Description:

xiii, 257 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cape Town, South Africa : Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House South Africa, 2021.

Summary:

"In Land Matters, Tembeka Ngcukaitobi tackles the past, present and future of the land question in South Africa. Going back in history, he shows how Africans' communal systems of landownership were used by colonial rulers to deny that Africans owned the land at all. He explores the effects of the Land Acts, Bantustans and forced removals. And he evaluates the ANC's policies on land throughout the struggle years, during the negotiations of the 1990s, and in government. Land Matters unpacks the government's achievements and failures in land redistribution, restitution and tenure reform, and makes suggestions for what needs to be done in future. The book also explores the power of chiefs, the tension between communal landownership and the desire for private title, the failure of the willing-seller, willing-buyer approach, women and land reform, the role of banks, and the debates around amending the Constitution. Steering clear of the simplistic and polarising terms of the land debate, Ngcukaitobi argues for a return to the nuanced constitutional requirements of justice and equity in South Africa's land policy. Thoughtful and provocative, Land Matters sheds light on one of the most topical, complex and urgent issues in South Africa today."-- Back cover.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Dispossession

1. The Crime of Apartheid

2. Apartheid, Capitalism and Land

3. Race and Dispossession

4. About the Stolen Cattle

5. Chiefly Power

pt. II Property and Liberation

6. Property and the Franchise

7. Private Property and Liberation

8. The Settlement of the 1990s

pt. III Land Trials and Errors: Restitution, Redistribution and Tenure

9. Whither Restitution?

10. Inequality in Land Redistribution

11. Our Mysterious Land Tenure

12. Women's Rights to Land

pt. IV The Future of Land Compensation

13. Justice and Equity in Compensation

14. Expropriation and the Banks

15. Is the Constitutional Amendment a Panacea?.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781776095964

1776095960

OCLC:

1246624707

Publisher Number:

99989443799