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  1. Library Resource
    Pathways Out of Poverty

    A guide to Legislation, Policy and Case Law

    Reports & Research
    June, 2017
    Global, Africa, South Africa

    Twenty years after the end of apartheid farm dwellers remain some of the most vulnerable people in South Africa, with many still facing extreme tenure insecurity and lacking access to adequate housing and basic services.2 The approximately three million black South Africans (6% of the population) who live on privately owned farms in formerly white commercial farming areas are among the poorest South Africans,3 whose vulnerability is exacerbated by their “socio-economic marginality and geographical isolation”.4

  2. Library Resource
    Land Rights
    Reports & Research
    June, 2017
    Africa, Southern Africa

    The report provides a conceptual framework for understanding the application of 'adjudication' to land rights verification as part of a general land administration function that includes offregister rights; and outlines the motivation for developing such as system in South Africa, with some provisional ideas about systematising and institutionalising land rights adjudication to include off-register rights.

  3. Library Resource

    Traditional Authority and Land in KwaZulu-Natal

    Reports & Research
    Legislation
    May, 2002
    Africa, South Africa

    Government is frequently charged with failing to finalise key policies relating to traditional authorities, for example, local government roles and functions, and communal land tenure. Whilst it is true that important issues remain unresolved, it is also true that the issues themselves are very complex and that some have become so politicised that rational debate is hindered. This section addresses some of these policy areas in a manner which hopefully enables rational debates and viable solutions. 

  4. Library Resource
    ADOPTING “First-level Adjudication” INTO A GIS MEDIUM

    A Preliminary report for AFRA by Denis Rugege, March 2005

    Other legal document
    March, 2005
    South Africa

    This project is a component of the project “Piloting of Local Administration of Records - PILAR”, undertaken by the Association for Rural Advancement (AFRA). AFRA is an independent land rights NGO that aims to redress past injustices, to secure tenure for all and to improve the quality of life and livelihoods of the rural poor. Pilar’s main objective is to assist the people of Ekuthuleni obtain legal, affordable and accessible land records in order to improve their tenure security and their access to credit and municipal services.

  5. Library Resource
    Options for developmental Options for developmental Land Administration Systems Land Administration Systems in the context of Communal Tenure situations; in the context of Communal Tenure situations; & implications for Service Delivery
    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    June, 2005
    Global, Africa, South Africa

    “Land registration and cadastral surveying in much of the developing world has reached a crossroads. It is not possible to continue with business as usual in the face of massive informality within the world's cities, and new more relevant approaches have to be developed”. (Fourie, 2000).

  6. Library Resource
    Will formalising property rights reduce poverty in South Africa’s ‘second economy’?

    Questioning the mythologies of Hernando de Soto

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    October, 2005
    Global, Africa, South Africa

    De Soto’s influential book The mystery of capital offers a simple yet beguiling message: capitalism can be made to work for the poor, through formalising their property rights in houses, land and small businesses. This approach resonates strongly in the South African context, where private property works well for those who inhabit the so-called ‘first economy’. Evidence from South Africa, however, suggests that many of de Soto’s policy prescriptions may be inappropriate for the poorest and most vulnerable in our society, and have negative impacts on their security and well-being.

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    April, 2019
    South Africa

    This is AFRA’s research, which took place from April to September 2017, a survey of 842 farm dweller households consisting of 6,478 men, women and children, living on 81 farms across the seven local municipalities of the UMgungundlovu District. 

  8. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    July, 2020
    South Africa

    Farm dwellers – that is, people who live on commercial farms owned by someone other than themselves – are a heterogeneous social group whose socio-economic rights, including those to land, continue to be violated and neglected. Little progress has been made in realising the constitutional rights farm dwellers have to housing, water, sanitation and security of tenure. A key reason for this is that farm dwellers are not ‘legible’ to the state: there is no data available that enables the state to plan and implement programmes targeting them.

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