LANDMARKED, land claims and land restitution in South Africa

292 pp., maps, illus., paperback, Johannesburg & Ohio, 2008

Drawing on her long involvement in the investigation of forced removals and her experience as Regional Land Claims Commissioner for KwaZulu-Natal from 1995 to 2000, Charryl Walker provides an account of the programme of land restitution as a whole and assesses its successes and failures.

Cherryl Walker is Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the University of Stellenbosch. She is the author of "Women and Resistance in South Africa", editor of "Women and Gender in Southern Africa" and co-author of "The Surplus People".