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    Amendment submission: National policy for beneficiary selection and land allocation
    (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, 2020-03-02) Ramantsima, Katlego; Mtero, Farai; Gumede, Nkanyiso; Du Toit, Andries; Hall, Ruth
    PLAAS has read and considered the implications of the National Policy for Beneficiary Selection and Land Allocation and submits the following comments and recommendations to the Director-General: Rural Development and Land Reform.
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    PLAAS Submission on 18th Constitutional Amendment Bill
    (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, 2020-02-28) Mtero, Farai; Hall, Ruth
    The 18th Amendment Bill of South Africa’s constitution seeks to make changes to Section 25 of the Bill of Rights (the property clause) in order to make explicit the circumstances that would warrant the payment of nil compensation following the expropriation of land. Land reform remains a key aspect of transformation in South Africa. South Africa’sland reform is provided for in the Constitution and the property clause strikes a balance between the protection of existing private property rights and the imperative to effect historical redress through equitable redistribution of land and other natural resources.
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    Position papers for the national Land tenure summit
    (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2014) Hall, Ruth; du Toit, Andries
    The attached position papers were written by researchers based at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University of the Western Cape, and at the Centre for Law and Society, University of Cape Town. They were distributed to the 2000 people who attended government’s National Land Tenure Summit in early September 2014. Also attached is a newspaper article on aspects of the summit written by Ruth Hall of PLAAS and published in the Daily Dispatch on 10 September 2014, and a newspaper article by Tara Weinberg of CLS, published in the Sunday Independent on 28 September 2014.
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    Restitution of land rights amendment bill 2013
    (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2013) Cousins, Ben; Hall, Ruth; Isaacs, Moenieba; Paradza, Gaynor
    1.1. This document represents a response from researchers at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies to the Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Bill as published on 19 October 2013. It is a statement by the signatories below and does not purport to represent the views of the University or the Institute as a whole. All those signing have been supporters of the Restitution programme since its inception in 1994, and several have been intimately involved in its development over the years. 1.2. Our comments are made in the spirit of the original aims of the Restitution of Land Rights Act 22 of 1994: that a just resolution should be found for the situation those dispossessed of land rights through racist and apartheid legislation, and that this should be done in a way that supports the broader national aims of reconciliation and the social and economic development of our people. PLAAS’s experience and role in supporting and monitoring the restitution programme are set out in the later section 10 of this submission.
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    Submission to the Constitutional Review Committee
    (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2018) Hall, Ruth; Cousins, Ben
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    Submission to the portfolio committee on public works on expropriation bill of 2015
    (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2015) Hall, Ruth
    The Bill brings legislation in line with the requirements of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 108 of 1996. To date, despite the efforts of progressive movements to ensure that expropriation would be provided for in our Bill of Rights, in support of land reform and the redistribution of access to land and other natural resources, our legal framework is still set by the Expropriation Act of 1975.
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    Submission to the portfolio committee on rural development and land reform on extension of security of tenure bill of 2015
    (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2016) Hall, Ruth
    1.1. The Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) welcomes the initiative to amend the Extension of Security of Tenure Act, 62 of 1997. 1.2. PLAAS is a constituent unit of the School of Government at the University of the Western Cape. PLAAS engages in research, training, policy development and advocacy in relation to land and agrarian reform, rural governance and natural resource management. PLAAS aims for rigour in its scholarship, excellence in its training, and effectiveness in its policy support and advocacy. It strives to play a critical yet constructive role in processes of social, economic and political transformation. 1.3. PLAAS has read and considered the implications of the Extension of Security of Tenure Bill of 2016, and submits the following comments and recommendations to the Portfolio Committee on Rural Development and Land Reform.