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

Abstract

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 instead have conditional tenure and perhaps remain permanent tenants of the state. The policies/bills include the Revised Restitution Amendment Bill; CPA Amendment Bill; Draft Communal Tenure Policy; State Land Leasing & Disposal Policy; Recapitalisation & Development Policy; ESTA Amendment Bill; Farm Worker Tenure Policy; Agricultural Landholding Policy Framework.