Table of Contents
Contribution v
Abbreviation vii
Note on the naming of statutes and statutory bodies ix
Acknowledgements x
Foreword xii
Part 1 Introduction 1
Chapter 1 Contextualishing the controversies: dilemmas of communal tenure reform in post apartheid South Africa Ben Cousins 3
Part 2 The Act and the legislative procedure 33
Chapter 2 An overview of the Communal Land Rights Act 11 of 2004 Henk Smith 35
Chapter 3 Tagging the Bill, gagging the provinces the Communal Land Rights Act in parliament Christina Murray Richard Stacey 72
Part 3 Land rights and customary law 93
Chapter 4 The nature of land rights under indigenous law in Africa HWO Okoth-Ogendo 95
Chapter 5 Characterizing 'communal' tenure nested system and flexible boundaries Ben cousins 109
Chapter 6 'Offical' vs 'living' customary law: dilemmas of description and recognition Tom Bennett 138
Chapter 7 Women, land and power the impact of the Communal Land Rights Act Aninka Classens Sizani Ngubane 154
Chapter 8 Custom-building free hold title: the impact of family values on historical ownership in the Eastern Cape Rosalie Kingwill 184
Part 4 Traditional leaders, power and land rights 209
Chapter 9 Contested terrain: land rights and chiefly power in historical perspective peter Delius 211
Chapter 10 Chiefs and the ANC in South Africa: the reconstruction of tradition? Lungisile Ntscbeza 238
Chapter 11 Power, accountability and apartheid borders: the impact of recent laws on struggles over land rights Aninka Claassens 262
Part 5 Case studies 293
Chapter 12 The Kalkfontein land purchases eighty years on and still struggling for ownership Aninka Claassens Durkje Gilfillan 295
Chapter13 Stealing restitution and selling land allocation: Dixie, Mahayana and makuleke Aninka Classens Moray Hathorn 315
Part 6 Conclusion 353
Chapter 14 Customary law and zones of chiefly sovereignty: the impact of government policy on whose voices prevail in the making and changing of customary law Aninka Classens 355
Index 383
List of maps
Map 1 The Northem Provinces 261
Map 2 Dixie village in relation to the Manyeleti Game Reserve 319
Map 3 Makgobistad, Manyaeyane and the tribal authority boundary 327
Map 4 Makuleke before and after the removal 335