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Recommendations of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing following his mission to South Africa
(2008)
The United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, Mr Miloon Kothari, visited South Africa from 12 to 24 April 2007, with the aim of examining the status of the realisation of the right to adequate housing in ...
Appropriate, just and equitable relief' in socio-economic rights litigation : the tension between corrective and distributive forms of justice
(South African Law Journal, 2008)
This article makes the point that one cannot understand fully the nature of the remedies granted by the Constitutional Court in socio-economic rights litigation unless their theoretical basis as defined by the notions of ...
Delineating the content of the right to social security : CESCR general comment
(ESR Review : Economic and Social Rights in South Africa, 2008)
The right to social security is of crucial importance in protecting the most vulnerable and marginalised members of society, especially those living in dire poverty. Social assistance is essential in ensuring that persons ...
'It's all about money! Implementation of South Africaís new fisheries policy
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2001)
This paper was originally written as part of an economics study commissioned by the Chief Directorate: Marine and Coastal Management (MCM) of the South African Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism (DEAT). Since ...
State, market or the worst of both? Experimenting with market-based land reform In South Africa
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2007)
The concept of ‘market-based land reform’ (MBLR, also market-assisted land reform, or market-led agrarian reform) has been central to the ‘new wave’ of land reform that has been in evidence internationally since the early ...
Land reform, sustainable rural livelihoods and gender relations: A case study of Gallawater A farm: Volume 2
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2000)
There is an ongoing debate about the
sustainability of South African
communal rangelands as old views
on overgrazing and degradation are being
widely challenged. The degradation issue
has recently received renewed ...
Land reform, sustainable rural livelihoods and gender relations: A case study of Gallawater A farm: Volume 1
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2000)
The research project aimed to investigate the impact of land reform
processes on sustainable rural livelihoods and on gender relations in
South Africa by examining a case study in the Eastern Cape province.
Polokwane land resolution creates space for struggle
(PLAAS, 2008-06)
The Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) is pleased to re-introduce Umhlaba Wethu, a quarterly bulletin on issues of land and agrarian reform in South Africa. Since 2005, public debate has focused increasingly ...
Land politics, trust relations in government and land reform in South Africa: Experiences from the Western and Northern Cape provinces
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2006)
The land question, as it is posed academically in South Africa, is at the cutting edge of the development debate.1 Should land held by poor peasants, often under some kind of communal tenure, be re-organised as private ...
Constituting the commons in the new South Africa
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2000)
This set of papers results from participation by staff members of the Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies in the eighth biennial conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property, held at ...