Browsing Occasional Papers Series by Author "Hall, Ruth"

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    • Evaluating land and agrarian reform in South Africa : Farm tenure 

      Hall, Ruth (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2003)
      Farm dwellers are among the poorest South Africans. Most have access to residential land only. A minority has access to grazing land for their livestock or to arable land for cultivation, in return for which they may be ...

    • Evaluating land and agrarian reform in South Africa : Final Report 

      Hall, Ruth; Jacobs, Peter; Lahiff, Edward (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2003)
      Land dispossession was a key feature of racism under colonial rule and apartheid in South Africa. More than 3.5 million people were forcibly removed in the period 1960 to 1983 alone, through homeland consolidation, removals ...

    • Evaluating land and agrarian reform in South Africa : Land redistribution 

      Jacobs, Peter; Lahiff, Edward; Hall, Ruth (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2003)
      Land dispossession during the colonial era and the decades of apartheid rule produced a highly unequal pattern of land ownership and widespread rural poverty in South Africa. When a democratically elected government came ...

    • Evaluating land and agrarian reform in South Africa : Rural restitution 

      Hall, Ruth (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2003)
      During the negotiated transition to democracy, many South Africans expected that liberation would bring the return of land they had been dispossessed of under colonialism and apartheid, but the terms on which the transition ...