One hundred years ago, it was declared illegal for native South Africans to acquire land outside scheduled native areas, reserves which had been demarcated by the new Union Parliament and covered only a small fraction of the country. This short piece of legislature, the 1913 Natives Land Act,...
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Land reform
by Ben Cousins and Michael Aliber on 31 Jan 2013
South African land reform beneficiaries have been at the mercy of unworkable project designs, largely irrelevant to their livelihood possibilities, aspirations and abilities. Where South African land reform recipients have achieved modest improvements, it is largely because they abandoned or...
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by Donna Hornby on 30 Nov 2012
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Land reform is a pall over the society. We don’t go forwards. We can’t go backwards. So mostly, we go nowhere. Whether we’re land owners,... |
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by Ruth Hall and Karin Kleinbooi on 7 Sep 2012
At the Carnegie 3 conference, Strategies to Overcome Poverty and Inequality, held in the first week of September 2012, a focus session on land reform suggested that all aspects of land reform – restitution, redistribution and...
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by Karin Kleinbooi on 21 Feb 2012
Shortly after the release of the Green Paper on Land Reform in September 2011 the Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform (DRDLR) Mr Gugile Nkwinti established the National Reference Group (NAREG) as a forum to contribute to policy development. In line with proposals in the Green Paper,...
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