This paper considers struggles of legitimation by the South African government over the first ten years of the country's democracy, by focusing on its engagement with policymaking processes in relation to land tenure reform in the former 'homelands' of the country. During such periods of...

The increase in wildlife ranching (game farming) has spawned a number of issues surrounding the character and trajectory of the private wildlife ranching sector in relation to local and global contexts. Wildlife resources are anchored on land which is subject to fierce debate given the recent...

Under colonialism and apartheid, the ruling white minority stole vast amounts of land from black Africans in Zimbabwe and South Africa. Reclaiming this land became an important rallying cry for liberation movements in both countries; but in the years after white minority rule ended, it was...

Introduction -- Part I: Dispossession -- The crime of apartheid -- Apartheid, capitalism, and land -- Race and dispossession -- About the stolen cattle -- Chiefly power -- Part II: Property and liberation -- Property and the franchise -- Private property and liberation -- The settlement of the...

Can land reform have a lasting impact on poverty reduction? The paper describes and evaluates a new type of negotiated land redistribution and highlights key areas that merit attention in designing programs of this nature.The author describes a new type of negotiated land reform that relies on...

South African experiewith efforts to implement land reform thus far indicates that to realize the potential and help solve the problems rural areas face, the government's land reform program needs to get beneficiaries, nongovernmental organizations, and the private sector more involved. Land...