Browsing Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) by Subject "Restitution"

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    • Bakwena ba Mare a Phogole (Klipgat) community restitution claim 

      Tilley, Susan; Nkazane, Ntombizabantu (PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2007-08)
      This report outlines the community’s attempts to develop and use the land that has been restored to it in terms of the Restitution of Land Rights Act 22 of 1994 (‘Restitution Act’). It examines the nature and content ...

    • Bjatladi community restitution claim 

      Tilley, Susan; Lahiff, Edward (PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2007-08)
      This report focuses on the restitution case of the Bjatladi Communal Property Association (CPA) and the development and use of the land that has been restored to it in terms of the restitution programme. It examines ...

    • Business models in land reform 

      Lahiff, Edward (PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2007-08)
      This paper reviews the types of business models, or landuse models, being implemented in land reform projects involving the transfer of rural land to communities and other groups in South Africa, under both the restitution ...

    • 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 ...

    • Foreign land ownership under scrutiny 

      PLAAS (2004-12)
      Welcome to the second issue of Umhlaba Wethu, the quarterly update on land and agrarian reform in South Africa from the Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies, based at the University of the Western Cape. Recent months ...

    • Groenfontein–Ramohlakane community restitution claim 

      Tilley, Susan; Nkazane, Ntombizabantu; Lahiff, Edward (PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2007-08)
      This report examines the efforts of the Groenfontein-Ramohlakane Trust to develop and use the land in (Mpumalanga) that has been restored to the community in terms of the Restitution of Land Rights Act 22 of 1994 ...

    • The impact of land restitution and land reform on livelihoods 

      Hall, Ruth (PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2007-08)
      This report investigates emerging trends evident in the limited literature available on the impact of land restitution on livelihoods, and suggests ways of thinking about, and planning for, livelihoods. The report has ...

    • Land beneficiaries as game farmers: conservation, land reform and the invention of the 'community game farm' in KwaZulu-Natal 

      Brooks, Shirley; Ngubane, Mnqobi (Taylor & Francis, 2013)
      Scholarship on post-apartheid land reform includes research on land claims made to formal protected areas, such as national parks and state game reserves. Little attention has however, been paid to the question of land ...

    • The legacies of the Natives Land Act of 1913 

      Hall, Ruth (Stellenbosch University, 2014)
      Looking back at the century since the promulgation of the Natives Land Act, it can be argued that it shaped the trajectories of most South Africans’ lives. It expelled black people from the land into crowded reserves and ...

    • PLAAS Workshop Report: National Land Workshop for Civil Society: Johannesburg, 2–4 October 2013 

      Molose, Virginia (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2013)
      A number of recent government policies and bills seem to suggest that land may increasingly be transferred into the hands of traditional leaders and other elite strategic partners, rather than to communities, who will ...

    • Polokwane land resolution creates space for struggle 

      PLAAS (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 ...

    • Restitution and post-settlement support: Three case studies from Limpopo 

      Manenzhe, Tshililo; Lahiff, Edward (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2007)
      This study examines the experience of land reform beneficiaries after land acquisition in three communal property associations (CPAs) in Limpopo province, namely Munzhedzi, Ximange and Mavungeni CPAs. In all three cases, ...

    • Restitution and post-settlement support: Three case studies from Limpopo 

      Manenzhe, Tshililo; Lahiff, Edward (PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2007-08)

    • Restitution of land rights amendment bill 2013 

      Cousins, Ben; Hall, Ruth; Isaacs, Moenieba; Paradza, Gaynor (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2013)
      1.1. This document represents a response from researchers at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies to the Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Bill as published on 19 October 2013. It is a statement by the ...

    • Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Bill 2013 

      Cousins, Ben; Hall, Ruth; Isaacs, Moenieba; Paradza, Gaynor (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2013)
      This document represents a response from researchers at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies to the Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Bill as published on 19 October 2013. It is a statement by the ...

    • Schmidtsdrift community land claim 

      Kleinbooi, Karin (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2007)
      The historic land of the Schmidtsdrift community lies along the banks of the Vaal River in the Northern Cape province, along the R300 road to Griquastad, approximately 71 km west from Kimberley and 53 km north-east from ...