1st Edition

Southern African Development Community Land Issues Volume I Towards a New Sustainable Land Relations Policy

Edited By Ben Chigara Copyright 2012
288 Pages
by Routledge

286 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

This book constitutes Volume I of a set of two Volumes. Volume I attempts a holistic inter-disciplinary evaluation of the legitimacy of colonial and emergent post-colonial rule property rights in affected States of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) in light of intensifying litigation in national courts, the SADC Tribunal, and more recently the Washington based International Centre... Read more

Part 1: Problematizing Southern African Development Community (SADC) Land Issues  1. Introduction, Ben Chigara  2. The Colonial Legacy in Land Rights in Southern Africa, Robert Home  3. Land Policy Developments and Setbacks in Southern Africa, Martin Adams and Rachael Knight  4. Land Resource Ownership and Use in ‘Africa of the Labour Reserves’ in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), Horman Chitonge  5. Land Issues before the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Tribunal: A Case for Human Rights?, Oliver C. Ruppel  Part 2: Juridical and Regulatory Challenges around SADC Land Issues  6. Indigenous Land Rights and Claims under International Law, Ilias Bantekas  7. The New Scramble for Africa: Towards a Human-Rights Based Approach to Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Sub-Region, Jérémie Gilbert and David Keane  8. The land crisis in Southern Africa: Challenges on good governance, Hany Besada & Ariane Goetz 9. The Land Question in Zimbabwe: The Judiciary as an Instrument of ‘Recovery’? Alex T. Magaisa  10. Property Rights and Land Reform in Namibia, Sam K. Amoo and Sidney L. Harring

Biography

Ben Chigara is Research Professor of International Laws at Brunel University, UK.