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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459487203321

Autore

Yanou Michael A (Michael Akomaye)

Titolo

Dispossession and access to land in South Africa [[electronic resource] ] : an African perspective / / Michael A. Yanou

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Mankon, Bamenda, : Langaa Research & Pub. CIG, 2009

ISBN

1-283-19804-5

9786613198044

9956-715-75-1

9956-715-87-5

9956-615-01-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (143 p.)

Soggetti

Land reform - South Africa

Land tenure - Government policy - South Africa

Right of property - South Africa

Compensation (Law) - South Africa

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Rev. ed. of the author's thesis (Ph. D. (Law)--Rhodes University, 2005), under title: Access to land as a human right : the payment of just and equitable compensation for dispossessed land in South Africa.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 101-110).

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Acknowledgement; Contents; Preface; Chapter One - Land: history and perspectives; Chapter Two - Land dispossession; Chapter Three - Land rights as human rights; Chapter Four - The constitutional property clause Property in the interim constitution; Chapter Five - Accessing land in post-apartheid South Africa; Chapter Six - Compensation; Chapter Seven - Land redistribution; Chapter Eight - Conclusion and recommendations; Bibliography; Notes; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

This book deals with the conceptualization of access to land by the dispossessed in South Africa as a human right. Yanou examines the country's property model in the context of the post apartheid constitutional mandate to redress the skewed land distribution of the past. The book reviews the strengths and weaknesses of the land



restitution process as well as the question of the payment of just and equitable compensation for land expropriated for restitution. It also reviews the phenomenon of land invasion and quality of access to land enjoyed by the South African black woman under the present