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Rick has over 40 years experience working in the land sector in Southern Africa. He is part of the Land Portal knowledge engagement team working to research and develop knowledge resources including data stories, blogs and in-depth country profiles for Southern, Central and Eastern Africa.
Rick is also a Senior Research Associate with Phuhlisani NPC - a South African land sector NGO and the curator of specialist Southern African land news and analysis website https://knowledgebase.land
He tweets on land related issues Twitter account https://twitter.com/KnowledgebaseL
He has a PhD from the University of Cape Town. His research in Langa, Cape Town features as the central case study in a recent book Urban Planning in the Global South (2018), co-authored with the late Vanessa Watson, which examines the on-going contestations over land and housing in the rapidly growing cities of the global South.
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Schmidtsdrift plans and policies
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
Schmidtsdrift CPA
The report is structured into nine chapters and an appendix:
Dwesa-Cwebe: Brief analysis
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:
The Dwesa Cwebe Restitution Claim
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.
Pushing and pulling
This case study provides a comparative analysis of two different initiatives designed to grow small
scale agricultural production in Cape Town.
Providing effective settlement and implementation support for land reform
A four page summary of a comprehensive 14 chapter base document highlighting strategy essentials
- Reframing land reform as a joint programme of government
- Area based integrated planning
- Providing comprehensive support services
- Securing rights, enhancinglivelihoods and enabling development
Providing effective settlement and implementation support for land reform
A four page summary of a comprehensive 14 chapter base document highlighting strategy essentials
- Reframing land reform as a joint programme of government
- Area based integrated planning
- Providing comprehensive support services
- Securing rights, enhancinglivelihoods and enabling development
Developing capacity to provide effective settlement and implementation support for land and agrarian reform in South Africa
This capacity development strategy was produced by Phuhlisani as part of the Sustainable Development Consortium as part of a proposed Settlement and Implementation Support Strategy for Land Reform in South Africa. The strategy focused on
Settlement and Implementation Support (SIS) Strategy for Land and Agrarian Reform in South Africa
Phuhlisani was the lead agency in a consortium appointed by the Commission on Restitution of land Rights and funded by Belgian Technical Co-operation tasked with the development of a strategy for the provision of effective post- settlement support required for land reform to be successful. While the focus was on Restitution to start with the brief expanded to address land reform as a whole. This document provides an accessible summary of the final proposals. While endorsed by the then Minister of Land Affairs the strategy was never implemented.
Strategies for Sustainable Land Reform in the Karoo Hoogland
This report examines the ways in which a local municipality can assist small holder farmers in a semiarid region. It highlights the range of smallholder producers and proposes different strategies for their effective support.