Article by Anne Hellum and Bill Derman: The Making and Unmaking of Unequal Property Relations between Men and Women: Shifting Policy Trajectories in South Africa’s Land Restitution Process
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Nordic Journal of Human Rights Vol. 28 No. 2. ISSN 1891-8131.
Abstract:
Setting forth a rights-based land restitution strategy that marries social justice with business, South Africa’s changing land restitution strategy involves the complex triangle of rights, rural poverty and markets. Tracking the legal claims of fi ve dispossessed communities in Levubu in Limpopo Province, since they were launched in 1997, this article analyses how the South African government balances its responsibility for development and social justice from a rural women’s perspective. Since rural women’s claims have been lodged as part of group claim it focuses on how the relationship between individual rights and group rights is constituted in laws, policies and practices. It addresses the disjuncture between national gender neutral laws and policies and the gendered outcome of the land restitution process. Towards this end, it explores how government agencies, NGOs and business partners have dealt with structures of power at household and local community levels, and in what ways they are challenging power-holders in these spheres.
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