Land, Power & Custom: Controversies Generated by South Africa's Communal Land Rights ActLand tenure rights are a burning issue in South Africa, as in Africa more widely. Land, Power, and Custom explores the implications of the controversial 2004 Communal Land Rights Act, criticized for reinforcing the apartheid power structure and ignoring the interests of the common people. This compilation of essays and case studies written by experts navigates through competing viewpoints to discuss the tensions between the new democratic government and traditional tribal leaders, the land rights of affected yet isolated or marginalized groups, and concerns about the constitutionality of the CLRA itself. A DVD accompanying the book contains the affidavits of four communities challenging the Act, pleadings, hearings, and submissions, as well as the entire body of South African legislation involved in this challenge, dating back to the late nineteenth century. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 53
Page 350
The message is that if tribal authorities include a few women and some ' elected ' members , the government will back them and support their version of custom and tradition . State - sanctioned versions of ethnic identity and chiefly ...
The message is that if tribal authorities include a few women and some ' elected ' members , the government will back them and support their version of custom and tradition . State - sanctioned versions of ethnic identity and chiefly ...
Page 363
versions , thereby sanctioning an authoritarian version of custom as law . Once chiefly versions of customary law were reduced to writing by anthropologists and state ethnologists and embodied in precedent - setting judgments ...
versions , thereby sanctioning an authoritarian version of custom as law . Once chiefly versions of customary law were reduced to writing by anthropologists and state ethnologists and embodied in precedent - setting judgments ...
Page 371
It is difficult for ordinary people to challenge chiefly versions of customary law in tribal courts overseen by traditional leaders , or in formal courts which are precedent - driven and rely on past judgments that upheld colonial and ...
It is difficult for ordinary people to challenge chiefly versions of customary law in tribal courts overseen by traditional leaders , or in formal courts which are precedent - driven and rely on past judgments that upheld colonial and ...
What people are saying - Write a review
We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.
Contents
dilemmas of communal tenure | 3 |
The Act and the legislative procedure | 33 |
the Communal Land | 72 |
Copyright | |
12 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Land, Power & Custom: Controversies Generated by South Africa's Communal ... Aninka Claassens,Ben Cousins No preview available - 2008 |
Common terms and phrases
According allocation apartheid application areas Bill Black boundaries challenge chapter chiefs Claassens claims colonial Communal Land Rights concerned Constitution context continue court created custom customary law deal deeds Department described determine discussed effect elected established example existing fields Framework functions given headman held historical impact important indigenous individual institutions interests involvement issue jurisdiction Kalkfontein land administration committee Land Affairs Land Rights Act land tenure legislation living Makuleke meeting minister Native nature official order rights ownership particular person political practice problems protection provincial question recognised referred reform registered relation responsibility restitution role rules rural says social society South Africa status structures Studies traditional authorities traditional councils traditional leaders Traditional Leadership transfer tribal authority Trust University versions Village women
Bibliographic information
| Title | Land, Power & Custom: Controversies Generated by South Africa's Communal Land Rights Act |
| Editors | Aninka Claassens, Ben Cousins |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Ohio University Press, 2008 |
| Original from | The Ohio State University (MORITZ LAW LIBRARY) |
| Digitized | 20 Apr 2015 |
| ISBN | 0821418734, 9780821418734 |
| Length | 392 pages |
| Subjects | › › › History / Africa / South / Republic of South Africa |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |