Abstract
AbstractLand claims and contests have been central to the construction of political authority across the African continent. South Africa’s post-apartheid land reform program aims to address historical dispossessions, but the program has experienced numerous obstacles and limits—in terms of pace, communal land access, productivity, and rural class divides. Drawing on archival and newspaper sources, Kelly traces how the descendant of a colonially-appointed, landless chief manipulated a claim into a landed chieftaincy and how both the chief and the competing claimants have deployed histories of landlessness and firstcomer accounts in a manner distinct to the KwaZulu-Natal region as part of the land restitution process.
Highlights
Résumé: Le programme de réforme foncière agraire post-apartheid de l’Afrique du Sud vise à remédier aux dépossessions historiques, mais le programme a connu de nombreux obstacles et limites - en termes de rythme, d’accès aux terres communales, de productivité et de divisions entre les classes rurales
Between 2007 and 2010, the provincial KwaZulu-Natal Regional Land Claim Commission (KZNRLCC) purchased several farms in an attempt to settle land claims in the Lower Mpushini-Lion Park area in Mkhambathini, KwaZuluNatal, South Africa. They awarded the land to the Azibuye Emasisweni MaQamu Community Trust (AEMCT), with Inkosi Siphiwe Michael Majozi as founder and trustee
The land restitution case at Mpushini exemplifies some of the trends in land reform scholarship— that which documents benefits to traditional authority
Summary
Résumé: Le programme de réforme foncière agraire post-apartheid de l’Afrique du Sud vise à remédier aux dépossessions historiques, mais le programme a connu de nombreux obstacles et limites - en termes de rythme, d’accès aux terres communales, de productivité et de divisions entre les classes rurales. The Mchunu family had lodged claims under the Restitution of Land Rights Act 22 of 1994 for the same farms.
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