Land Reform in the Eastern Free State: Policy Dilemmas and Political Conflicts
Land Reform in the Eastern Free State: Policy Dilemmas and Political Conflicts
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东部自由州的土地改革:政策困境和政治冲突
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10.1080/03066159608438613
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1996
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C. Murray
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作者:
C. Murray
There are three principal elements of South Africa's emerging land reform policy. The first is restitution of land to those who were dispossessed under apartheid laws. The second is redistribution of land to those who need it. The third is tenure reform, intended to achieve security of tenure for people holding land under diverse forms of tenure.'The national Department of Land Affairs is primarily responsible for the policy, and for the disposition of funds from the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) for its implementation. Each of the nine provinces has been allocated a substantial budget from the RDP for its Pilot Land Reform Programme, administered through a Provincial Steering Committee (PSC), a formally constituted but non-statutory body. 2 These provincial frameworks are by no means uniform in respect of their composition and representation or of their institutional capacities to plan and implement a detailed land reform programme and to respond to regional political pressures. The diverse agencies involved are'feeling their way'in a climate of political change, uncertainty over institutional responsibilities and volatility of conflicting demands.The absence of uniformity and the prevailing uncertainty reflect many factors. Perhaps the most important of these are a legacy of different divisions of institutional responsibility for land and agricultural matters in the past, between erstwhile'homeland'governments and central and provincial administrations; protracted delay over the re-integration of'homeland'government departments and agencies into their respective new provincial frameworks; corresponding confusion over the distribution of particular functions at any one time; differing histories of NGO activity and