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Recommended Books about Mpumalanga and its people
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| Gaining Groud? by Deborah James "Gaining Ground: Rights and Property in South African Land Reform" examines how land reform policy and practice in post-apartheid South Africa have been produced and contested. Set in the province of Mpumalanga, the book gives an ethnographic account of local initiatives and conflicts, showing how the poorest sectors of the landless have defied the South African state's attempts to privatise land holdings and create a new class of African farmers. They insist that the 'rights-based' rather than the 'market-driven' version of land reform should prevail and that land restitution was intended to benefit all Africans. But their attempts to gain land access often backfire. Despite state assurances that land reform would benefit all, illegal land selling and 'brokering' are pervasive, representing one of the only feasible routes to land access by the poor. This book shows how human rights lawyers, NGOs and the state in interaction with local communities have tried to square these symbolic and economic claims on land. |
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| No More Tears: Struggles for Land in Mpumalanga, South Africa by Richard Levin and Daniel Wiener In this study of land and agrarian reform policy conflicting programmes of transformation are analysed, the specific role of the World Bank is criticised and the results of a research and policy development project recently undertaken in Mpumalanga Province are presented. |
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