An edition of Land, power & custom (2008)

Land, power & custom

controversies generated by South Africa's Communal Land Rights Act

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Land, power & custom
Aninka Claassens, Ben Cousins
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controversies generated by South Africa's Communal Land Rights Act

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Land, Power, and Custom: Controversies Generated by South Africa's Communal Land Rights Act
2009, Ohio University Press
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Land, power & custom: controversies generated by South Africa's Communal Land Rights Act
2008, Legal Resources Centre, Distributed in the United States by Ohio University Press
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Table of Contents

Part one. Introduction. Contextualising the controversies: dilemmas of communal tenure reform in post-apartheid South Africa / Ben Cousins. Part two. The Act and the 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 / Aninka Claassens and 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 law and zones of chiefly sovereignty: the impact of government policy on whose voices prevail in the making and changing of customary law / Aninka Classens.

Edition Notes

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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[Durban], Athens, OH
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Land, power and custom

Classifications

Library of Congress
KTL685.5 .L36 2008, KTL685.5.L36 2008, HD1333.S6 L348 2008, KTL

The Physical Object

Pagination
xv, 392 p. :
Number of pages
392

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23179818M
ISBN 10
1919895507
ISBN 13
9781919895505
LCCN
2008489221
OCLC/WorldCat
246524616, 277162275
Library Thing
9020362
Goodreads
6499580

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