Land divided, land restored : land reform in South Africa for the 21st century
Ben Cousins (Editor), Cherryl Walker (Editor)
"Land reform is once again under the spotlight. Amidst calls by some politicians for confiscating land from white farmers without compensation, others claim that the land redistributed to black owners is not being productively farmed. The debate is dangerously polarised, the stakes high. At the same time new challenges confront policy-makers: climate change, threats to bio-diversity, urbanisation, high unemployment, food security, and global economic uncertainties. 2013 was the centenary of South Africa's notorious Natives Land Act, whose effects are still evident in the country's divided countryside and deeply racialised inequalities. 2014 is the deadline that the ANC government set for itself of redistributing 30 per cent of commercial agricultural land into black ownership. All agree that the target cannot be met, but there is little agreement on what is the best way forward. 2014 is also the twentieth anniversary of the founding of democracy. Building on the public debates generated by the centenary of the 1913 Land Act, this book presents a major opportunity to review the contemporary significance of land as a social, economic and natural resource in South Africa - to pose new questions and search for new answers. The book is illustrated with photographs from the acclaimed Iziko National Gallery exhibition "Umhlaba 1913-2013: Commemorating the 1913 Land Act", curated by David Goldblatt, Paul Weinberg, Bongi Dhlomo-Mautloa and Pam Warne."--Cover
xiii, 314 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color maps, portraits (some color) ; 25 cm
9781431409679, 1431409677
908086406
Land divided, land restored : introduction
The Natives Land Act of 1913 : a template but not a turning point
The land and its languages : Edward Tsewu and the pre-history of the 1913 Land Act
Environmental change in twentieth century South Africa and its implications for land reform
Law, land and custom, 1913-2014 : what is at stake today?
The right to the city : the planning and 'un-planning' of urban space since 1913
Commercial farming and agribusiness in South Africa since 1994
Land reform : the view from commercial agriculture
Who, what, where, how, why? The many disagreements about land redistribution in South Africa
Unravelling the 'willing buyer, willing seller' question
The 'land' question : the South African Constitution and the emergence of a conservative agenda
Transfrontier conservation and land reform policy
Not just farming : natural resources and livelihoods in land and agrarian reform
Baas van die plaas / Izwe lethu : essay in fragments and two villanelles exploring different relationships to land in some indigenous poetic texts
Sketch map to the future : restitution unbound
'Through a glass darkly' : towards agrarian reform in South Africa