Green Paper on Land Reform : Overview and Challenges

Originating as a submission made to the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform by the Centre for Constitutional Rights in 2011, this paper provides an overview of some of the main aspects and key features that stem from the Green Paper on Land Reform, 2011.While the Green Paper contains some excellent proposals and ideas, it is also extremely vague, contains a lot of florid political rhetoric and creates a lot of uncertainty about the implementation and possible unconstitutionality of some of the proposals. Following the framework of the Green Paper, this article provides a brief commentary on some of the most problematic aspects of the Green Paper