LAND MATTERS, South Africa's failed land reforms and the road ahead
257pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2021
Tembeka Ngcukaitobi on the effect of the Land Acts, Bantustans and forced removals; the ANC’s policies on land; developments in land redistribution, restitution and tenure reform; the power of chiefs and the tension between communal land ownership and the desire for private title; the failure of the willing-buyer, willing-seller approach; women and land reform; the role of banks, and the debates around amending the Constitution.
Tembeka Ngcukaitobi is an advocate of the High Court of South Africa, specialising in Public Law, and is an adjunct professor of public law at the University of Cape Town and Nelson Mandela University. He is the author of The Land is Ours.