What is it about?
This publication draws on the results of three final year University of Cape Town Geomatics students' research projects. Each of the students hails from a region of South Africa governed according to customary laws - the former Bantustans of apartheid South Africa. The students interviewed community members, local chiefs and community leaders, as well as municipal officials, to create a sense of how customary land allocations work. Their results were compared and contrasted in this publication, and found to be remarkably similar, even though each student was reported on a different tribal area. The results were also used to test a model of rural land tenure security.
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Why is it important?
It is important in the context of South African land reform programmes currently underway because existing customary land tenure systems need to be accommodated into any discussion and decisions around the recording and rights over their land.
Perspectives
This publication draws together three separate case studies undertaken by final year Geomatics students under my supervision. Each context is unique and the researchers worked independently. As well as describing land allocation for each context, each case study is compared against a published model for measuring tenure security. The publication hence makes a valuable contribution to understanding customary land tenure systems in South Africa and similar contexts.
Dr Simon Antony Hull
University of Cape Town
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This page is a summary of: Land allocation, boundary demarcation and tenure security in tribal areas of South Africa, South African Journal of Geomatics, March 2016, African Journals Online (AJOL),
DOI: 10.4314/sajg.v5i1.5.
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