Segregation Land Law and Post-Apartheid Land Reform in South Africa
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Dewar, John
Parker, Stephen
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Scope of the work and sequence of material The published worksl and additional work2 deal with the following topics and themes under the subject of apartheid land law and reform:- • The legal historical antecedents of racial segregation land law; • The development of modern apartheid land legislation from 1910 to the 1980's; • A descriptive model to explain the complexities of apartheid land law as it existed by 1990; • An analysis and discussion of the major issues for post-apartheid land reform, and the dilemmas inherent in the choices; • An examination and critique of the land-related claims in the predominant political manifesto of the major liberation movement (the Freedom Charter of the African National Congress); • A critique of land reform solutions proposed by prominent social scientists in South Africa; • An assessment of developments in land affairs in the period immediately prior to the advent of rapid political change from about 1991 until the elections in 1994; • An appraisal of the issues and themes in South African land reform from a comparative perspective, with particular emphasis on land reform in Latin America; • An analysis of post-apartheid land reform to date, with emphasis on (1) the role of law in land reform and (2) the role of land in social reconstruction.
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Griffith Law School
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Segregation, South africa
Land law, South Africa
Post-apartheid land reform, South Africa