We are pleased to announce that Ben Cousins (DST/NRF Chair in Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies at PLAAS) has been awarded the 2009 University of the Western Cape Vice Chancellor's Annual Book Award in the category "UWC editor(s) of a book published by a recognized publishing house, which book is based purely on research undertaken by the authors".

The prize was awarded for the book " Land, Power and Custom: Controversies Generated by South Africa's Communal Land Rights Act", which Professor Cousins co-editored with Aninka Claassens (UCT Press, 2008).