What is it about?
Mozambique and South Africa have been grappling with their own complicated 'land question' since the early 1990s. Each country has tackled the challenge in their own way, with successes and failures on both sides. As South Africa's land reform programme wallows in the doldrums of inefficiency and corruption, we look at what our neighbour has accomplished and draw 10 recommendations from their experiences.
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Why is it important?
The South African public are becoming frustrated and impatient at the slow delivery of the land reform programme. The vast spatial and socio-economic divide that persists nearly a quarter of a century after the fall of apartheid needs to be addressed urgently. This publication provides 10 recommendations that may help. The two most important are: interrogate the underlying theory, and draft a single, comprehensive land policy with associated legislation.
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The publication is not a blueprint for successful land reform. It merely serves to highlight pertinent issues that need to be addressed.
Dr Simon Antony Hull
University of Cape Town
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This page is a summary of: Filling the gap: customary land tenure reform in Mozambique and South Africa, South African Journal of Geomatics, September 2018, African Journals Online (AJOL),
DOI: 10.4314/sajg.v7i2.1.
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