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The promise of land - Undoing a Century of dispossession in South Africa (Paperback): Fred Hendricks, Lungisile Ntsebeza, Kirk... The promise of land - Undoing a Century of dispossession in South Africa (Paperback)
Fred Hendricks, Lungisile Ntsebeza, Kirk Helliker
R454 Discovery Miles 4 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A century after the 1913 Natives' Land Act, there remains a land crisis in South Africa. How are we to understand the many dimensions of this crisis so that we can realistically move beyond the current inertia? The starting point for this book is that the current land reform policies in the country fail to take this colonial context of division and exclusion into account. As a result, there is an abiding land crisis in South Africa. The book examines the many dimensions of this crisis in urban areas, commercial farming areas and communal areas. It argues for a fundamental change in approach to move beyond the impasse in both policy and thinking about land. Of particular importance is that social movements have a critical role to play in charting a new course, both in respect of access to land and in influencing broader policy options. Struggles from below are crucial for rethinking purely statistic efforts at land reform and the book grapples with the interplay between oppositional campaigns of social movements and the state's policies and responses. Essentially, the book argues that in South Africa the 1994 transition from apartheid to democracy has not translated into a process of decolonisation. In fact, the very bases of colonialism and apartheid remain intact, since racial inequalities in both access to and ownership of land continue today. With state-driven attempts at land reform having failed to meet even their own targets, a fundamental change in approach is necessary for South Africa to move beyond the deadlock that prevails between the objectives of the policy, and the means for realising them. It is also necessary to question the targets set for land redistribution: Will these really assist in changes for the majority?

Democracy Compromised - Chiefs And The Politics Of The Land In South Africa (Paperback, New ed): Lungisile Ntsebeza Democracy Compromised - Chiefs And The Politics Of The Land In South Africa (Paperback, New ed)
Lungisile Ntsebeza
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R353 Discovery Miles 3 530 Ships in 2 - 4 working days

Democracy compromised puts the spotlight on traditional authorities and addresses two main issues - first, how despite their role in the apartheid state, traditional authorities not only survived, but have won unprecedented powers of rural governance in South Africa's democracy, and second, how they derive their authority. This study carefully details the fascinating history of the chieftaincy in the Xhalanga area of the Eastern Cape. The author shows how traditional authorities have been dependent on the support of the state since the advent of colonialism and how deeply traditional structures have been contested. Light is shed on the unexpected renaissance of these authorities under ANC rule and the role of traditional leaders in the process of land allocation is clearly explained.

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