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Land Reform in South Africa: Is it meeting the challenge?
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2001)
As recent events at Brendell and elsewhere have demonstarted, land and landlessness remain critical issues in post-apartheid South Africa. This paper presents a brief overview of the key challenges facing land reform in ...
The withering away of politically salient territorial cleavages in South Africa and the emergence of watermark ethnic Federalism
(Oxford University Press, 2019)
The policy of apartheid was an attempt to territorialize the white/black racial cleavage
through the creation of bantustans, confining black political aspirations to 13 percent
of the country, while the remainder of the ...
Prisoners' rights litigation in South Africa since 1994: a critical evaluation
(Law, Democracy & Development, 2005)
It is a sad fact that there is often a huge gap in South Africa between the constitutional promise of a life lived with dignity and respect, on the one hand, and the actual lived reality of people who are supposed to be ...
The Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
There is an urgency in theorising how
diversity is negotiated, communicated,
and disputed as a matter of everyday
ordinariness that is compounded by the
clear linkages between diversity, transformation,
voice, agency, ...
South Africa: anthropology or anthropologies?
(American Anthropological Association, 2015)
A direct result of South Africa’s specific history has been the extraordinary significance of its contested, if not conflicting, political and ideological positions on anthropology’s South African trajectories. This was ...
A critical appraisal of South Africa’s market-based land reform policy: The case of the Land Redistribution for Agricultural Development (LRAD) programme in Limpopo
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2004)
In 1996 less than 1% of the population
owned and controlled over 80% of
farm land. This 1% was part of the
10.9% of the population classified as white
(Stats SA 2000). Meanwhile, the 76.7% of
the population that is ...
South Africa: Urban transformation
(Elsevier, 2000)
This paper discusses transformation as a multi-dimensional concept to effect social change in
South African society in the post-apartheid era. The policy implications of such a variegated
understanding of social change ...
Africa after apartheid: South Africa, race, and nation in Tanzania
(Routledge, 2016)
South African economic and political expansion into the African continent has been a controversial
feature of the post-apartheid era. Now human geographer Richard Schroeder has taken up the matter
in an ethnographic study ...
Sport and recreation on Robben Island
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)
The article provides insight into an important part of South Africa’s sport history that
has not been explored yet: What was the role sport and recreation played on Robben
Island in the days when it served as political ...
Beyond nostalgia in the search for identity: Black liberation theology and the politics of reconciliation
(AOSIS, 2021)
Practitioners of Black liberation theology often reflect on the emergence of this theological
expression by means of a nostalgic launch into the past, seeking ways to address some of
today’s most pressing concerns. In ...