Land, power & custom : controversies generated by South Africa's Communal Land Rights Act

Contextualising the controversies: dilemmas of communal tenure reform in post-apartheid South Africa; An overview of the Communal Land Rights Act 11 of 2004; Tagging the Bill, gagging the provinces: the Communal Land Rights Act in Parliament; The nature of land rights under indigenous law in Africa; Characterising 'communal' tenure: nested systems and flexible boundaries; 'Official' vs 'living' customary law: dilemmas of description and recognition; Women, land and power: the impact of the Communal Land Rights Act; Custom-building freehold title: the impact of family values on historical ownership in the Eastern Cape; Contested terrain: land rights and chiefly power in historical perspective; Chiefs and the ANC in South Africa: the reconstruction of tradition?; Power, accountability and apartheid borders: the impact of recent laws on struggles over land rights; The Kalkfontein land purchases: eighty years on and still struggling for ownership; Stealing restitution and selling land allocations: Dixie, Mayaeyane and Makuleke; Customary law and zones of chiefly sovereignty: the impact of government policy on whose voices prevail in the making and changing of customary law; Index.