Book Launch – Land, Law and Chiefs in Rural South Africa – A discussion on contested histories and struggles
July 20, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
INVITATION
Join Wits University Press, SWOP (Society, Work and Politics Institute) and LARC (Land and Accountability Research Centre) for the launch of a new book
Land, Law and Chiefs
in Rural South Africa
Edited by William Beinart,
Rosalie Kingwill and Gavin Capps
Who controls the land and minerals in the
former Bantustans of South Africa – chiefs, the state or landholders?
Join us when William Beinart, historian and co-editor of a new book on land discusses these contested histories and struggles
together with contributors Advocate Geoff Budlender, DineoSkosana, researcher at SWOP, and Khumisho Moguerane from
the Department of History at the University of Johannesburg.
Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi, author of The Land Is Ours: Black Lawyers and the Birth of Constitutionalism in South Africa.
will also participate.
The institutional legacy of the homelands and Bantustans under apartheid remains in the systems of landholding and local authority. These are different from most of the rest of the country. Disputes are taking place around the ownership of resources, decisions about their exploitation and who should benefit. With respect to all of these issues, the courts have become increasingly important.
These contested histories and struggles and their legal ramifications, will be discussed.
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