Land, power & custom
Subtitle: controversies generated by South Africa's Communal Land Rights Act
By: [edited by Aninka Claassens & Ben Cousins]
Contributors: Claassens, Aninka.; Cousins, Ben, 1949-
Publisher: Legal Resources Centre; Distributed in the United States by Ohio University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: [Durban]; Athens, OH
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9781919895505
Subjects: Indigenous peoples -- South Africa -- Land tenure; Land tenure -- Law and legislation -- South Africa; Customary law -- South Africa
Other titles: Land, power and custom
Notes: DVD contains "current and historical legislation affecting communal land and affidavits by rural applicants, state officials and traditional leaders in pending litigation concerning land rights and chiefly power"--Back cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part one. Introduction. Contextualising the controversies: dilemmas of communal tenure reform in post-apartheid South Africa /  Ben Cousins. Part two. The Act and the legislative procedure. An overview of the Communal Land Rights Act 11 0f 2004 / Henk Smith; title: Tagging the Bill, gagging the provinces: the Communal Land Rights Act in Parliament / Christina Murray and Richard Stacey. Part three. Land rights and customary law. The nature of land rights under indigenous law in Africa / H.W.O. Okoth-Ogendo; title: Characterising 'communal' tenure: nested systems and flexible boundaries / Ben Cousins; title: 'Official' vs 'living' customary law: dilemmas of description and recognition / Tom Bennett; title: Women, land, and power: the impact of the Communal Land Rights Act / Aninka Claassens and Sizani Ngubane; title: Custom-building freehold title: the impact of family values on historical ownership in the Eastern Cape / Rosalie Kingwill. Part four. Traditional leaders, power, and land rights. Contested terrain: land rights and chiefly power in historical perspective / Peter Delius; title: Chiefs and the ANC in South Africa: the reconstruction of tradition? / Lungisile Ntsebeza; title: Power, accountability, and apartheid borders: the impact of recent laws on struggles over land rights / Aninka Claassens; title: Part 5 Case studies.The Kalkfontein land purchases: eighty years on and still struggling for ownership / Aninka Claassens and Durkje Gilfillan; title: Stealing restitution and selling land allocations: Dixie, Mayaeyane, and Makuleke / Aninka Claassens with Moray Hathorn. Part six. Conclusion. Customary law and zones of chiefly sovereignty: the impact of government policy on whose voices prevail in the making and changing of customary law / Aninka Classens.