Property in Minerals and Petroleum is the first major academic text to analyze the state-custodianship concept in South African law with emphasis on its application in mineral and petroleum law. As such, the book seeks to stimulate academic discourse about the impact of the incorporation of state custodianship in this field of law.

• Catalysts of change
• Common-law principles that shaped mineral & petroleum law in South Africa
• Pre-2004 mineral and petroleum law
• Objects of the MPRDA
• State custodianship in South African jurisprudence: A historical perspective
• State custodianship of the nation’s mineral and petroleum resources
• Defining minerals and petroleum
• Nature and content of rights to minerals
• Nature and content of rights to petroleum
• The acquisition of permissions, permits and rights to minerals and petroleum
• The transfer, encumbrance and termination of rights to minerals and petroleum
• Balancing interests
• The way forward