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PLAAS Seminar: 8 April 2010 - SA’s land governing structures conduits for illicit self-enrichment? by Andile Sokomani
| What | Seminar |
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| When |
2010-04-08 13:00
2010-04-08 14:00
2010-04-08 from 13:00 to 14:00 |
| Where | PLAAS Boardroom |
| Contact Name | Nandipha Makatesi |
| Contact Email | nmakatesi@uwc.ac.za |
| Contact Phone | 021 959 3733 |
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SA's land governing structures conduits for illicit self-enrichment? by Andile Sokomani (Senior Researcher, Institute for Security Studies) | |
| ABSTRACT | |
| South Africa’s land reform experience in the last sixteen years of democracy indicates that the success of the country’s land reform programme is contingent upon a complex range of issues, encompassing such factors as the existence of an adequate budget to implement the programme’s goals, and building the technical capacity of land reform beneficiaries to ensure that restituted and redistributed land remains productive. What is also increasingly apparent is that as long as the financial resources devoted to addressing these issues are wasted through corruption, not much progress can be made. A better understanding of how this leakage occurs is pivotal to the design of credible sustainable reform measures. Part of improving this understanding is examining and debating the extent to which the structures and institutions governing the land reform process in South Africa facilitate this wastage. This includes important institutions such as the Land Bank, the Deeds Registry, and property ownership regimes such as community trusts, community property associations (CPAs), as well as the practise of vesting ownership of restituted and redistributed land in tribal chiefs who hold it in trust on behalf of their tribes or ‘subjects’. The seminar will engage with preliminary findings of a draft research paper by the Institute for Security Studies on the role of these land governing structures in encouraging illicit self-enrichment. Read the thought piece on this topic on the PLAAS blog. | |
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