2006, ISBN: 9781868144433

(No place: Lowveld Regional Development Association, 1954). Cover title reads: 'The South-Eastern Transvaal Lowveld: A Survey of the Resources and Development of the Southern Lowveld … More...

(No place: Lowveld Regional Development Association, 1954). Cover title reads: 'The South-Eastern Transvaal Lowveld: A Survey of the Resources and Development of the Southern Lowveld Region of the Eastern Transvaal'. 4to; original green cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xxvii + (i) + 211, incl. index; plates; maps and tables, incl. several folding. Dustwrapper rubbed and edgeworn; some blotching to bottom edges of boards; some foxing, esp. to endpapers, edges and outermost leaves. Good condition. "This is far more than a mere compilation of facts and figures; though it contains full, factual, graphic and pictorial data, showing the stage of development reached in the South-Eastern Lowveld; it tells an entrancing story of the emergence of the region from darkness into light, of its change from a liability to an asset of prime value, of its present stage of development and of its future potentialities." ., (No place: Lowveld Regional Development Association, 1954), 0, ISBN: 9781868144433Wits University Press, 31 December 2006Paperback | 304 pagesGaining ground? Rights and property in South African land reform examines how land reform policy and practice in post-apartheid South Africa have been produced and contested. Set in the province of Mpumalanga, the title gives an ethnographic account of local initiatives and conflicts, showing how the poorest sectors of the landless have defied the South African state's attempts to privatize land holdings and create a new class of African farmers. They insist that the 'rights-based' rather than the 'market-driven' version of land reform should prevail and that land restitution was intended to benefit all Africans. However, their attempts to gain land access often backfire. Despite state assurances that land reform would benefit all, illegal land selling and 'brokering' are pervasive, representing one of the only feasible routes to land access by the poor. This title shows how human rights lawyers, NGOs and the state, in interaction with local communities, have tried to square these symbolic and economic claims on land. It will be of use to academics in the fields of law, anthropology and development studies., 0<

ISBN: 1868144437

[EAN: 9781868144433], [PU: Wits University Press, US], REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA, LAND RIGHTS, PROPERTY, REAL ESTATE, & TENANCY LAW, LAW

2007, ISBN: 1868144437

[EAN: 9781868144433], Gebraucht, wie neu, [PU: Wits University Press, Johannesburg], 282p., ill.