Browsing by Subject "Communal land"

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    • Reshaping women’s land rights on communal rangeland 

      Kleinbooi, Karin (National Inquiry Services Centre (NISC) (Pty) Ltd, 2013)
      This paper aims to contribute to the debates on communal rangelands and analyses the gendered dimension of land rights and land access in the rural areas of Namaqualand. The actual gender relations within rural communities ...

    • The rise and decline of smallscale sugarcane production in South Africa: A historical perspective 

      Dubb, Alex (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2013-12)
      South Africa’s sugar industry has long been distinguished by its large number of small-scale sugarcane growers (SSGs) farming on ‘communal’ land and its peculiar, privately administered regulatory structure. In recent ...

    • TRANCRAA and communal land rights: Lessons from Namaqualand 

      Wisborg, Poul; Rohde, Rick (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2003)
      The Transformation of Certain Rural Areas Act, Act 94 of 1998 (TRANCRAA) is the first comprehensive legislation to reform communal land tenure in South Africa. It aims to transfer land in 23 former coloured rural areas ...

    • Understanding land acquisitions in Namibia’s communal land: Impacts and policy implications 

      Muduva, Theodor (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2015)
      Large-scale land acquisitions by both foreign and local investors for agriculture, forestry and wildlife purposes, among others, remain a major challenge for African governments. Between 2000 and 2011, the Namibian ...