Property, rights and community in a South African land-claim case
Nustad, Knut G
Wiley (2011)
s. 20-24.
In the context of South Africa's land reform programme, the concepts of ‘property’ and ‘rights’ carry a heavy ideological baggage. A shift in government policy, from treating land reform as a question of rights to a question of the transfer of land, has been accompanied by a reification of the idea of community. The result is a policy that is seriously out of touch with the complex legacy of dispossession that the land reform programme was meant to address. These problems become exacerbated when the land in question is part of a conservation area.
