Misplaced agrarianization? Reflections on ten years of land restitution. From: Social Research | Date: September 22, 2005| Author: Walker, Cherryl | COPYRIGHT 2005 New School for Social Research. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

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THE RESTITUTION OF LAND RIGHTS ACT WAS THE FIRST PIECE OF transformative legislation to be passed--amid a standing ovation--by South Africa's newly democratized Parliament in November 1994. Redressing the massive land dispossessions suffered by black South Africans under white minority rule and protecting established (white) property rights were major points of tension during the constitutional negotiations, leading to a compromise that endeavo...

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