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Author Yanou, Michael A. (Michael Akomaye)

Title Dispossession and access to land in South Africa : an African perspective / Michael A. Yanou
Published Mankon, Bamenda : Langaa Research & Pub. CIG ; [East Lansing, Mich.] : Distributed in N. America by Michigan State University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 131 pages)
Contents Land : history and perspectives -- Land dispossession -- Land rights as human rights -- The constitutional property clause : property in the interim constitution -- Accessing land in post-apartheid South Africa -- Compensation -- Land redistribution -- Conclusion and recommendation
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 101-110)
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Subject Land reform -- South Africa
Land tenure -- Government policy -- South Africa
Right of property -- South Africa
Compensation (Law) -- South Africa
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
Compensation (Law)
Land reform
Land tenure -- Government policy
Right of property
Zugang
Grundeigentum
South Africa
Südafrika <Staat>
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