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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    July, 2017
    Africa

    African universities have a key role to play in developing technical and human capacities to support land policy development and implementation, according to experts attending a two-day meeting to validate a study on ‘Land, Ethnicity and Conflict in Africa’, held last month in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    August, 2017
    Africa

    This article seeks to investigate whether concern for food security and investment liberalization are the principle drivers of land-grabbing in Africa. The investigation demonstrates that, in addition to food security concern, climate change and energy security considerations have been key catalysts arousing hunger for farmland, forests, and fisheries resources in Africa.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    July, 2017
    South Africa

    Recently, in its policy conference held in Johannesburg, South Africa from 30 June to 5 July 2017, the African National Congress (ANC) once again put on the table the possibility of land expropriation without compensation. In his closing remarks on the last day of the conference, President Zuma stated that “where it is necessary and unavoidable, land expropriation without compensation may be pursued.”

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2017
    Global

    Recognition and respect for tenure rights has long been recognized as an important concern for development, conservation, and natural resource governance. This paper discusses why secure tenure rights for local communities, indigenous peoples and women are central to good natural resource governance and important for livelihoods and human rights, as recognized in multiple international conventions. The paper reviews both challenges and opportunities for securing rights in practice and highlights successful cases of tenure reform.

  5. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    July, 2017
    South Africa

    The Financial and Fiscal Commission (the Commission) undertook a study into the land reform programme. Part of the problem is that land reform is framed within the narrow confines of agriculture and does not take into account the inherent sectoral challenges. The survey results show the land reform programme’s lack of success is illustrated by the drastic decrease in production since land was transferred.

  6. Library Resource
    Legislation & Policies
    August, 2013
    South Africa

    Reversing the legacy of the 1913 Natives Land Act. The root of the land question today arises out of the pervasive process of land alienation that dispossessed the majority of South Africans of their land over the past few centuries. 2013 is the centenary f the 1913 Natives Land Act, which was the first of number of discriminatory laws that reinforced the massive dispossession of land from black South AFricans

  7. Library Resource
    Legislation & Policies
    July, 1991
    South Africa

    To provide for the upgrading and conversion into ownership of certain rights granted in respect land; for the transfer of tribal land in full ownership to tribes; and for matters connected therewith.
    (Afrikaans text signed by the State President.)
    (Assented to 27 June 1991.)
    BE IT ENACTED by the State President and the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa, as follows:

  8. Library Resource
    Legislation & Policies
    June, 1993
    South Africa

    To provide for the designation of certain land; to regulate the subdivision of such land and the settlement of persons thereon;_andto provide for matters connected therewith

  9. Library Resource
    Legislation & Policies
    June, 1996
    South Africa

    To provide for the temporary protection of certain rights to and interests in land which are not otherwise adequately protected by law; and to provide for matters connected therewith

  10. Library Resource
    Legislation & Policies
    July, 1994
    South Africa

    To provide for the temporary protection of certain rights to and interests in land which are not otherwise adequately protected by law; and to provide for matters connected therewith

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