Land, power & custom : : controversies generated by South Africa's Communal Land Rights Act / / [Aninka Claassens & Ben Cousins].
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cape Town :, Athens, OH : : UCT Press :, Legal Resources Centre ;, Published for distribution in the U.S. by Ohio University Press,, 2008. |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 392 pages); maps ;; 1 DVD-ROM (4 3/4 in.) |
| 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. |
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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 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 / by Aninka Claassens ans 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 land laws and zones of chiefly sovereignty: the impact of government policy on whose voices prevail in the making and changing of customary law / Aninka Classens.