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Dispossession and Access to Land in South Africa. An African Perspective

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Dispossession and Access to Land in South Africa. An African Perspective

$51.32
 
This book deals with the conceptualization of access to land by the dispossessed in South Africa as a human right. Yanou examines the country's property model in the context of the post apartheid constitutional mandate to redress the skewed land distribution of the past. The book reviews the strengths and weaknesses of the land restitution process as well as the question of the payment of just and equitable compensation for land expropriated for restitution. It also reviews the phenomenon of land invasion and quality of access to land enjoyed by the South African black woman under the present dispensation. Yanou argues that the courts have, on occasions, construed just and equitable compensation generously. This approach has failed to reflect the fact that what is being paid for is land dispossessed from the forebears of indigenous inhabitants. In a South Africa that lost most of its ancestral land during colonialism and apartheid, access to land for the dispossessed should not be equated with the protection of property acquired under apartheid. Getting it right would entail truth and reconciliation with the collective dispossession suffered by South African blacks.


Author: Michael Akomaye Yanou
Publisher: Langaa RPCID
Publication Date: Feb 01, 2009
Number of Pages: 144 pages
Binding: Paperback or Softback
ISBN-10: 9956558761
ISBN-13: 9789956558766
 

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