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Jurisprudence of the SA constitutional court – a comparative study
The project will analyse three factors in play: a national project of post-colonial recovery from distributive injustice, prominently including land reform; express constitutional protection for property rights; and a constitution whose other main features bring it recognisably within the broad historical tradition of liberal constitutionalism.
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Beyond Expropriation Without Compensation: Law, Land Reform and Redistributive Justice in South Africa
Zenker, Olaf, Cherryl Walker and Zsa-Zsa Boggenpoel. (Eds.). 2024. Beyond Expropriation Without Compensation: Law, Land Reform and Redistrib...
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Access to Land and Agricultural Incentives for the Youth in Namibia
Amadhila, Elina M. 2022. Access to Land and Agricultural Incentives for the Youth in Namibia. In V. Gumede & T. Shonhe (Eds.), Rethinkin...
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Land Reform and Rural Production in South Africa
The Presidential Advisory Panel on Land Reform and Agriculture (2019) argued that ‘land reform must be oriented around growing the agricultural sector to foster economic development, and not purely be an endeavour to transfer land’.
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Land, conflict and radical distributive claims in South Africa’s rural mining frontier
Mnwana, Sonwabile and Andrew Bowman. 2021. Land, conflict and radical distributive claims in South Africa’s rural mining frontier. The Extra...
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Land reform, rural inequality and agrarian change: the case of Isidenge, Stutterheim, Eastern Cape
Beinart, William, Sonwabile Mnwana and Luvuyo Wotshela. 2020. Land reform, rural inequality and agrarian change: the case of Isidenge, Stutt...
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Smallholder Irrigation Schemes, Agrarian Reform and ‘Accumulation from Above and from Below’ in South Africa
Ben Cousins. 2013. Smallholder Irrigation Schemes, Agrarian Reform and ‘Accumulation from Above and from Below’ in South Africa. Journal of ...
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Introduction: Agrarian Change, Rural Poverty and Land Reform in South Africa since 1994
Bridget O’Laughlin, Henry Bernstein, Ben Cousins and Pauline E. Peters. 2013. Introduction: Agrarian Change, Rural Poverty and Land Reform i...
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Analysing Land Law Reform
Peters, Pauline E. 2015. Analysing Land Law Reform. Development and Change 46 (1): 167–93. doi:10.1111/dech.12137.
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Compensation Through Expropriation without Compensation? Land Reform and the Future of Redistributive Justice in South Africa
The decision by the South African Parliament in February 2018 to review the constitutional property clause possibly allowing for expropriation without compensation has fervently brought the land question back into public debate.
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Property – Obstacle or Key to Success for South Africa's Constitutional Democracy?
The inclusion of a clause protecting the deprivation of property in South Africa’s Constitution was controversial.
