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  • Land Matters

  • South Africa’s Failed Land Reforms and the Road Ahead
  • By: Tembeka Ngcukaitobi
  • Narrated by: Lungile Lallie
  • Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (8 ratings)

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Land Matters

By: Tembeka Ngcukaitobi
Narrated by: Lungile Lallie
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Why has land reform been such a failure in South Africa? Will expropriation without compensation solve the problem? What can be done to get the land programme back on track?

In his new book, Tembeka Ngcukaitobi tackles these questions and more. Going back in history, he shows how Africans’ communal land ownership was used by colonial rulers to deny that Africans owned the land at all. He explores the effect of the Land Acts, Bantustans and forced removals. And he considers the ANC’s policies on land throughout the 20th century, during the negotiations of the 1990s, and in government.

Land Matters unpacks developments in land redistribution, restitution and tenure reform, and makes suggestions for what needs to be done in future. The book also considers the power of chiefs, 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.

Thoughtful and provocative, Land Matters sheds light on one of the most complex questions in South Africa today.

©2021 Tembeka Ngcukaitobi (P)2021 Penguin Random House South Africa
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Wow!

One of the best books I have ever read!!!!

A long overdue masterpiece and Masterclass produced by a genius.

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The Land is Ours

Can we also get 'The Land is Ours' on audible please? This is a great work. Thanks and well done Advocate.

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Banks need to join the land expropriation party

I'm happy that thus book dived into the uncomfortable topic of how the banks will be affected by land expropriation
Though no definite answer was provided; I sure appreciated the suggestions which need a national debate

South African banks need to give their position/proposal on expropriation of land with/without compensation

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