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  1. Library Resource
    South African land news March 2020

    A rapid scan of news stories curated on knowledgebase.land

    Reports & Research
    April, 2020
    South Africa

    Every day since Pres Ramaphosa was elected into office we have searched out South African land-related news which is curated on our website knowledgebase.land. This publication provides a brief summary of land news across a range of categories for March 2020

  2. Library Resource
    Land Reform in South Africa

    What can we do to achieve sustainable pro-poor land reform in South Africa?

    Reports & Research
    December, 2018
    South Africa

    This moderated online dialogue was facilitated by Phuhlisani NPC in association with the Land Portal. Phuhlisani NPC has drafted this report on the key issues surfaced through the dialogue. 

    Dialogue objectives
    The dialogue provided an online forum to explore different perspectives on the content of a pro-poor programme of land reform programme that can:

  3. Library Resource

    International perspectives on land tenure, development and spatial inequality: Annex 1

    Reports & Research
    July, 2017
    Global

    Various multilateral organisations, for instance the World Bank, the Food and Agricultural Organisation have been at the forefront of the different programmes designed to enhance tenure security of landholders as the basis for long-term agricultural development. This has been the case especially in parts of the world where customary systems of tenure are predominant. Wily argues that ‘so little of sub-Saharan Africa is subject to formal entitlements as legally recognised private properties’.

  4. Library Resource

    Commissioned report for High Level Panel on the assessment of key legislation and the acceleration of fundamental change, an initiative of the Parliament of South Africa

    Reports & Research
    July, 2017
    South Africa

    This review critically examines the evolution of laws, policies and practices across colonial, apartheid and contemporary eras to identify the associated processes and patterns of uneven development and their contribution to the structural poverty and systemic inequality and the ways in which these are manifested in space and place. The primary focus is on the effectiveness of policies and laws shaping land tenure and governance in the democratic era and the extent to which they have been able to engage with these spatially differentiated legacies in order to promote spatial justice.

  5. Library Resource

    Commissioned report for High Level Panel on the assessment of key legislation and the acceleration of fundamental change, an initiative of the Parliament of South Africa

    Reports & Research
    July, 2017
    South Africa

    The report provides a brief history of farm labour in South Africa tracing its roots in slavery and colonial dispossession through to the emergence of state supported commercial agriculture and the subsequent deregulation of the agricultural sector. This is with a view to contextualising the examination of tenure security and identifying the impacts on people living and working on land owned by others. The report provides a scan of the legal reforms and measures instituted in the first decade of democracy in order to reverse the injustices of the past.

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    March, 2009
    South Africa

    This document summarises approaches to resolve disputes, profile the membership of the Communal Property Association, develop a new CPA Constitution and examine options for the utilisation of mineral, agricultural and game resources and the allocation of business sites. It also explores options for CPA management and the need for professional management staff in this large and complex restitution claim

  7. Library Resource

    Scoping and staus quo report

    Reports & Research
    October, 2008
    South Africa

    The report is structured into nine chapters and an appendix:

  8. Library Resource

    Towards the delivery of effective post settlement support

    Training Resources & Tools
    September, 2006
    South Africa

    This review follows a five day day field based learning session on the failure to implement the co management agreement in Dwesa Cwebe. It highlights a range of problems evident in 2007/8 including:

  9. Library Resource

    A case study as preparation for a field based learning programme

    Reports & Research
    September, 2007
    South Africa

    This cases study provided the background for a five day field based learning programme in D2007 as part of the learning programme linked to the development of a settlement and implementation support programme for land reform. The Dwesa Cweba land claim involved communities who had been removed to make way for the establishment of the Dwesa Cwebe Reserve - an protected area combining indigenous coastal forest, marine and nature reserves.

  10. Library Resource

    Attempts to stimulate smallholder agriculture in metropolitan Cape Town

    Reports & Research
    September, 2008
    South Africa

    This case study provides a comparative analysis of two different initiatives designed to grow small
    scale agricultural production in Cape Town.

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