Land Matters: South Africa’s Failed Land Reforms and the Road Ahead – Tembeka Ngcukaitobi
Tembeka Ngcukaitobi unpacks his book 'Land Matters: South Africa’s Failed Land Reforms and the Road Ahead' (Camera & editing: Darlene Creamer)
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Why has land reform been such a failure in South Africa? Will expropriation without compensation solve the problem? What can be done to get the land programme back on track?
In his new book, Tembeka Ngcukaitobi tackles these questions, and more. Going back in history, he shows how Africans’ communal land ownership was used by colonial rulers to deny that Africans owned the land at all. He explores the effect of the Land Acts, Bantustans and forced removals. And he considers the ANC’s policies on land throughout the twentieth century, during the negotiations of the 1990s, and in government.
Land Matters unpacks developments in land redistribution, restitution and tenure reform, and makes suggestions for what needs to be done in future. The book also considers the power of chiefs, the tension between communal land ownership and the desire for private title, the failure of the willing-buyer, willing-seller approach, women and land reform, the role of banks, and the debates around amending the Constitution.
Thoughtful and provocative, Land Matters sheds light on one of the most complex questions in South Africa today.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Tembeka Ngcukaitobi is an advocate of the High Court. He holds the degrees of BProc, LLB (Unitra), LLM (Rhodes) and LLM (London School of Economics). He formed part of the EFF legal team arguing for the state capture report to be released in the North Gauteng High Court.
Land Matters: South Africa’s Failed Land Reforms and the Road Ahead is published by Penguin Random House South Africa
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