Introduction: Land, Sovereignty, and Indigeneity in South Africa -- 1. The Erasure of Past Interests in Land at Philippolis -- 2. The Griqua Land Regime and its Challenges -- 3. The Erasure of Past Interests in Land at Orania -- 4. The Oranian Land Regime and its Challenges -- Conclusion: Land Regimes and Property Rights on the Orange River -- Afterword: On Restitution and Dispossession
Summary
This local history of Griqua Philippolis (1824-1862) and Afrikaner Orania (1990-2013) gets at the crux of the ever-pertinent land question in South Africa. Identifying the many layers of dispossession definitive of the South African past, the book presents a provocative new argument about land rights and the residues of settler colonialism