Land Matters : South Africa's Failed Land Reforms and the Road Ahead
Land Matters : South Africa's Failed Land Reforms and the Road Ahead
Description
In Land Matters, Tembeka Ngcukaitobi tackles the past, present, and future of the land question in South Africa.Going back in history, he shows how Africans' communal systems of landownership were used by colonial rulers to deny that Africans owned the land at all. He explores the effects of the Land Acts, Bantustans, and forced removals. And he evaluates the ANC's policies on land throughout the struggle years, during the negotiations of the 1990s, and in government.Land Matters unpacks the government's achievements and failures in land redistribution, restitution, and tenure reform, and makes suggestions for what needs to be done in future. The book also explores the power of chiefs, the tension between communal landownership and the desire for private title, the failure of the willing-seller, willing-buyer approach, women and land reform, the role of banks, and the debates around amending the Constitution.