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Regulating the institution of traditional leadership
(PLAAS, 2008-10)
This edition of Umhlaba Wethu focuses on communal tenure and specifically on the Communal Land Rights Act (CLRA), which, if implemented, will see the transfer of private title to communal land to ‘traditional communities’; ...
Evaluating land and agrarian reform in South Africa : Farm tenure
(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 : Rural restitution
(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 ...
Evaluating land and agrarian reform in South Africa : Land redistribution
(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 : Support for agricultural development
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2003)
In South Africa, land reform has to be more than securing land rights and transferring a certain number of hectares to black people. Broadly speaking, it has to take into account the uneven spatial development patterns ...
Challenges of co-management on shared fishery ecosystems: The case of Lake Chiuta
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2005)
Fisheries co-management initiatives have been implemented in various water bodies of southern Africa since the 1990s (Geheb & Sarch 2002). A Participatory Fisheries Management Programme (PFMP) was introduced on Lakes ...
Evaluating land and agrarian reform in South Africa : Land use and livelihoods
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2003)
This paper addresses how land reform can contribute to enhancing land-based livelihoods.
South African agriculture is often characterised as being divided into two types: freehold
tenure/ commercial agriculture vs. ...
Evaluating land and agrarian reform in South Africa : Joint ventures
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2003)
Joint ventures (JVs) are an increasingly common feature of the process of land and agrarian reform in South Africa. They involve black people who currently have land rights or who are land reform beneficiaries and will be ...
Evaluating land and agrarian reform in South Africa : Municipal commonage
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2003)
This paper compares the performance of the Municipal Commonage Programme of the Department of Land Affairs (DLA) with the objectives stated in the White Paper on South African Land Policy (DLA 1997). This paper will review ...
Evaluating land and agrarian reform in South Africa : Rural settlement
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2003)
The primary focus of South Africa is land reform programme is the acquisition of land and tenure security. The policies and strategies attached to this programme have provided many people with land. However, access to land ...