Property, social justice and citizenship : property law in postapartheid South Africa

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dc.contributor.authorVan Der Walt, A. J.en_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-17T06:49:48Z
dc.date.available2018-05-17T06:49:48Z
dc.date.issued2008-03
dc.descriptionCITATION: Van Der Walt, A.J. 2008. Property, social justice and citizenship: Property law in Post-apartheid South Africa . Stellenbosch Law Review = Stellenbosch Regstydskrif 19(3):325-346.en_ZA
dc.descriptionThe original publication is available at https://journals.co.za/content/journal/ju_slren_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis article examines the question whether property law can and should foster democratic forms of governance, advance social justice, promote citizenship and build sustainable and supportive communities. The question is particularly relevant in post-apartheid South Africa, since apartheid land law worked in exactly the opposite direction. “Grand apartheid” undermined what would normally be considered democratic forms of governance and citizenship because it institutionalised discriminatory and socially divisive and destructive agricultural and urban land use policies and management systems, thereby causing or exacerbating overcrowding, social displacement and economic marginalisation. At the same time, the discriminatory landuse and – management laws and practices of “petty apartheid” systematically destroyed any possibility of fostering social justice, good citizenship and the building of sustainable and supportive communities. The advent of the post-1994 democratic dispensation in South Africa and the concomitant constitutional directives to eradicate the legacy of apartheid and to promote the values of human dignity, equality and freedom present a felicitous opportunity to ask whether the post-1994 political, constitutional and social dispensation can reverse the legacy of apartheid by, among other things, fostering democratic forms of governance and citizenship and advancing social justice and the building of sustainable and supportive communities.en_ZA
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dc.identifier.citationVan Der Walt, A.J. 2008. Property, social justice and citizenship: Property law in Post-apartheid South Africa . Stellenbosch Law Review = Stellenbosch Regstydskrif 19(3):325-346.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1996-2193 (online)
dc.identifier.issn1016-4359 (print)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/104008
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_ZA
dc.publisherJuta Law Publishingen_ZA
dc.rights.holderJuta Law Publishingen_ZA
dc.subjectApartheid land lawen_ZA
dc.subjectProperty -- Law and legislation -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectSocial justice -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectLand reform -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectCitizenship -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectDemocracy -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.titleProperty, social justice and citizenship : property law in postapartheid South Africaen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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