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Titolo: | Land, power & custom : controversies generated by South Africa's Communal Land Rights Act / / [Aninka Claassens & Ben Cousins] [[electronic resource]] |
Pubblicazione: | Cape Town : , : UCT Press : , : Legal Resources Centre |
Athens, OH : , : Published for distribution in the U.S. by Ohio University Press, , 2008 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xv, 392 pages) : maps ; + 1 DVD-ROM (4 3/4 in.) |
Soggetto topico: | Land reform - Law and legislation - South Africa |
Land tenure - Law and legislation - South Africa | |
Customary law - South Africa | |
Indigenous peoples - Land tenure - South Africa | |
Altri autori: | ClaassensAninka CousinsBen <1949-> |
Note generali: | DVD contains "current and historical legislation affecting communal land and affidavits by rural applicants, state officials and traditional leaders in pending litigation concerning land rights and chiefly power"--Back cover. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Part one. Introduction. Contextualising the controversies: dilemmas of communal tenure reform in post-apartheid South Africa / Ben Cousins. Part two. The Act and legislative procedure. An overview of the Communal Land Rights Act 11 0f 2004 / Henk Smith -- Tagging the Bill, gagging the provinces: the Communal Land Rights Act in Parliament / Christina Murray and Richard Stacey. Part three. Land rights and customary law. The nature of land rights under indigenous law in Africa / H.W.O. Okoth-Ogendo -- Characterising 'communal' tenure: nested systems and flexible boundaries / Ben Cousins -- 'Official' vs 'living' customary law: dilemmas of description and recognition / Tom Bennett -- Women, land and power: the impact of the Communal Land Rights Act / by Aninka Claassens ans Sizani Ngubane -- Custom-building freehold title: the impact of family values on historical ownership in the Eastern Cape / Rosalie Kingwill. Part four. Traditional leaders, power and land rights. Contested terrain: land rights and chiefly power in historical perspective / Peter Delius -- Chiefs and the ANC in South Africa: the reconstruction of tradition? / Lungisile Ntsebeza -- Power, accountability and apartheid borders: the impact of recent laws on struggles over land rights / Aninka Claassens -- Part 5 Case studies.The Kalkfontein land purchases: eighty years on and still struggling for ownership / Aninka Claassens and Durkje Gilfillan -- Stealing restitution and selling land allocations: Dixie, Mayaeyane and Makuleke / Aninka Claassens with Moray Hathorn. Part six. Conclusion. Customary land laws and zones of chiefly sovereignty: the impact of government policy on whose voices prevail in the making and changing of customary law / Aninka Classens. |
Altri titoli varianti: | Land, power and custom |
Titolo autorizzato: | Land, power & custom |
ISBN: | 1-919895-76-0 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910829591703321 |
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