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Post-1991 land reform statutes

Literature › Primary sources

Kind legislation gazette
Producer Parliament of South Africa
Coverage 1991-1998
Works using it 2

Debates

Debate Works
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform 1
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry 1
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Crush and Jeeves (1993) Abolition of Racially Based Land Measures Act (No. 108 of 1991) 1991 Treated as a policy instrument that sets narrow parameters for reform and is criticised for not making provision for widespread land redistribution.
Venter et al. (2000) Post-1994 land reform statutes (Restitution of Land Rights Act 22 of 1994; Communal Property Associations Act 28 of 1996; Extension of Security of Tenure Act 62 of 1997; Land Reform (Labour Tenants) Act 3 of 1996; Interim Protection of Informal Land Rights Act 31 of 1996; Transformation of Certain Rural Areas Act 94 of 1998, etc.) 1991-1998 Statutory text is analysed as evidence of whether land reform breaks with common-law and apartheid property codes.