The Land and Its People: the land question and the South African political order

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dc.contributor.authorDu Toit, Andries
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-13T11:35:42Z
dc.date.available2023-03-13T11:35:42Z
dc.date.issued2023-03
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines the disjuncture between the discourses of policy deliberation and contentious politics in debates about ‘the land question’ in South Africa. It argues that the South African land debate as it unfolds in the public realm is best understood as a displaced discourse indirectly addressing the terms of political belonging and the nature of the post-apartheid political order. Far from being a distraction, this is a challenge that urgently needs to be confronted in its own terms. Confronting the crisis of the post-apartheid political order requires a re-thinking of the terms in which national identity is conceived. The paper explores the possibilities of a politics of belonging centred on the Constitutional invocation of a political order ‘for all who live in it’ and what this might imply for a more constructive and productive engagement with land struggles in urban and rural South Africa.en_US
dc.identifier.citationDu Toit, A. 2023, March. The Land and its People: The South African ‘Land Question’ and the Post-Apartheid Political Order. Working Paper 64. PLAAS UWCen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/8577
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherInstitute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS)en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWaking Paper;64
dc.subjectLand reformen_US
dc.subjectConstitutionalismen_US
dc.subjectGovernmenten_US
dc.subjectEmancipationen_US
dc.subjectCitizenshipen_US
dc.titleThe Land and Its People: the land question and the South African political orderen_US
dc.typeWorking Paperen_US

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