Land Reform

About this Publication:

Part of the Juta’s Property Law Library series, Land Reform covers all legal developments spanning the first phase or exploratory land reform programme that was embarked upon in 1991, followed by the all-encompassing land reform programme that coincided with the constitutional dispensation, until July 2013.

Land reform is approached with reference to its various contexts, drawing the broad categories of state land and private land that are further subdivided into urban and rural contexts, where relevant. All relevant legislative measures and policy documents are set out and major court decisions are analysed accordingly.

Contents Include:

• Table of Statutes
• Table of Cases

Part I

• Introduction
• Land reform in context
• Historical excursion

Part II

• Land reform as a temporal process
• Land reform embedded into the Constitution
• Policy dimension to land reform
• Broadening access to land and redistribution
• Tenure reform
• Restitution programme
• Unlawful occupation and eviction

Part III

• Reflecting on land reform: characteristics, dichotomies and tensions

Of Interest and Benefit to:

• Legal practitioners
• Government
• Legal Resource Centre
• NGO’s involved in Land development, reform and agriculture
• Land owners
• Academics and researchers
• Lecturers