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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"land restitution"”.
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Perspectives on Urban Land Restitution: what constitutes good enough?
The amendment of the Restitution of Land Rights Act (no. 2 of 1996) has reopened the period for lodging a land claim in South Africa until 2019. The previous period for lodging a claim closed in 1998 but claims lodged over 20 years have still not been attended to. There exists a concern that with …
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Post-settlement challenges on land restitution beneficiaries in the Vhembe District
… a study of post-settlement challenges faced by land restitution beneficiaries in the Vhembe District in the Limpopo Province. Whilst it can be assumed that the government is attempting to address the challenges regarding the management of land reform processes in South Africa, with the aim of …
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Impotence and omnipotence : problematising the articulation of anthropological perspectives within the land restitution process
… internship which I served at the Commission on Restitution of Land Rights (Western and Northern Cape), working on the Ndabeni Land Restitution Claim. Through reflecting upon my own inability to appropriately incorporate anthropological perspectives within the Ndabeni Land Restitution process, I …
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Examination of socio-economic benefits of land restitution in the Makuleke community of Limpopo Province
Institute for Rural Development
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Relevant, important and credible: reflections on applying anthropology in the South African land restitution process
… and reconciliation. Central to the country's land reform is the Commission on Restitution of Land Rights, through which people may seek restitution for land rights lost under racially discriminatory legislation and practices of the past eight decades. The dissertation explores the contribution …
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The impact of monetary compensation as a land restitution redress mechanism in the Vhembe District, South Africa
… compensation, within household claimants of two restitution communities in Vhembe District, South Africa. It involved a simple random sampling of 183 claimants from Phaphazela and Ribungwani communities. Collected data were captured into Excel spread sheets and the SPSS version 21 IBM programmes …
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Deciphering spaces of and for participation: The subversion of community participation and rights in the urban land restitution process of District Six
The Land Restitution Act 22 of 1994 affords historically dispossessed person to return areas from which they were forcibly removed. With a focus on urban restitution this dissertation looks at why the restitution of land in District Six has been slow and fraught with frustrations and delays. This …
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The effect of land restitution on protected areas : an analysis of the co-management model in operation at the Mkambati Nature Reserve
… and having been faced with a huge number of land claims on protected areas, the South African Government adopted a co-management system as a way of informing the settlement of land claims lodged within protected areas. Through a case study of the Mkambati Nature Reserve (MNR) in the Eastern …
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An explorative case study of blockchain as a means to enhancing land registry governance to uphold property and land restitution in South Africa
Land ownership is one of the fundamental constitutional rights of every citizen in South Africa. The slow progress regarding land reform and security of tenure in the form of the transfer and registration of title deeds is arguably a failure of the State to uphold the Constitution of the Republic …
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Capitalism and private nature reserves: the taming of Mala Mala land claim
… expose its callous nature. In South Africa, land restitution calls into question capitalism's operation as it disrupts the conventional process of profit accumulation. This is evident when looking at the manner in which land claims are settled in private nature reserves that are under a land …
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An analysis of the sustainability of small-scale farming in Dukuduku, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa.
… 1994. The variety of rural based policies, like land restitution have been introduced in order to restore the dignity of people and by these means economically empower them (to productively utilise the land and by these means attain rural and agrarian transformation) in the former homelands who …
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Restoration of land : towards a biblical jubilee in South Africa
Land restitution is an inevitable consequence of the new dispensation in South Africa. Restitution aims to return people to land dispossessed because of racial laws corresponding to the Land Act of 1913. An alternative is to compensate the victims in other appropriate mechanisms. In facilitating …
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The neo-liberalisation of nature : contextualising the resolution of land claims in the Kruger National Park
… the unfortunate reality of forced removals and land dispossession. Ultimately landlessness created an unequal society in terms of land holding, use and ownership. Nature conservation was also not spared. The land reform program in South Africa more especially the land restitution in the Kruger …
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Reading restitution in District Six: law, discourse and 'governmentality'
… to negotiate and fix the terms of the statutory land restitution process in District Six, Cape Town, during the period from 1996 to 2012. Utilizing French philosopher Michel Foucault's theorisation of 'discourse' and 'governmentality', it traces the interweaving of restitution's legislative …
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Examining land reform in South Africa: evidence from survey data
Land and land reform have long been contentious and highly charged topics in South Africa, with land performing the dual functions of redress for the past and development for the future. This research explores both these aspects of land, with the focus being on the impact of land receipt on …
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Environmental change in Riemvasmaak, Northern Cape, South Africa twenty years after resettlement
… is an important case study with regard to land restitution and livestock impacts upon arid rangelands hypothesized to be at disequilibrium. As part of a 'black spot' removal program during apartheid, about 1,500 people from Riemvasmaak were forcibly moved off their land in 1974. With many …
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An evaluation of urban and rural land use change, conflict and competition
This study set out to evaluate the extent of land use change, competition and conflict in Polokwane city and in selected land restitution areas of Limpopo province. The methods of data collection and analysis included document analysis, triangulation of quantitative and qualitative survey methods, …
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We Belong to the Trees, A Collection of Short Stories
… It implores one to think about issues such as land-restitution, violence, racism, poverty, crime, and greed. The main concern as a writer is to reflect my surroundings, discuss and dissect through storytelling. The work encompasses my fears and concerns as a South African.
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A Socio-Political History of Griqua Women in Griqualand East, c. 1950 – 2005
… of their time. Although the East Griqualand Pioneers Council (EGPC) emerged as the leading organisation in Griqualand East between 1950 and 2000 and became known for its role in land claims and Griqua identity, this thesis argues that Griqua women who were often marginalised in official …
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Ornament because of crime : learning from Mafia Baroque
… corruption, , and the unclear laws relating to land restitution and private development- it seeks to understand how these mafia individuals exploited the construction industry and architecture, and what the future manifestations of these mechanisms could be. A new wave of rural migration to the …
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