Université de Fribourg

South African Land Restitution, White Claimants and the Fateful Frontier of Former KwaNdebele

Zenker, Olaf

In: Journal of Southern African Studies, 2015, vol. 41, no. 5, p. 1019-1034

South African land restitution, through which the post-apartheid state compensates victims of racial land dispossession, has been intimately linked to former homelands: prototypical rural claims are those of communities that lost their rights in land when being forcibly relocated to reserves, and they now aspire to return to their former homes and lands from their despised ‘homelands’....