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Title:Part special issue: reflections on the 1913 Land Act and its legacies, 1913-2013
Author:Walker, CherrylISNI
Year:2014
Periodical:Journal of Southern African Studies (ISSN 1465-3893)
Volume:40
Issue:4
Pages:655-779
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:property rights
legislation
land reform
social conditions
About person:Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje (1876-1932)ISNI
External link:https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2014.909663
Abstract:The 2013 centenary of the Natives Land Act and current developments in South African land reform policy provide the immediate political context for this part-special issue. They also constitute an important dimension of its subject matter, as authors draw on recent scholarship to probe, qualify, deconstruct and contextualise both 'the legacy of the Land Act' and its contemporary framings. What emerges is less a single legacy than several legacies that, furthermore, cannot carry the full weight of historical explanation so often accorded them. The articles in the part-issue also draw attention to issues that contemporary debates on land reform often neglect, including complex changes in the natural environment, the extent of social differentiation among rural people and the importance of sub-national differences and dynamics. Contributions: Critical reflections on South Africa's 1913 Natives Land Act and its legacies: introduction (Cherryl Walker); The historical context and legacy of the Natives Land Act of 1913 (William Beinart, Peter Delius); 'It is as bad to be a black man's animal as it is to be a black man' - the politics of species in Sol Plaatje's 'Native life in South Africa' (Sandra Swart); Changing patterns of rural land use and land cover in South Africa and their implications for land reform (M. Timm Hoffman); Quitrent tenure and the village system in the former Ciskei region of the Eastern Cape: implications for contemporary land reform of a century of social change (Luvuyo Wotshela); A tangled past: land settlement, removals and restitution in Letaba District, 1900-2013 (Michelle Hay); Denying ownership and equal citizenship: continuities in the State's use of law and 'custom', 1913-2013 (Aninka Claassens). Notes, ref., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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