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Abstract:
South Africa, like all other African states that are coming out of colonisation has had to redistribute land following their political independence. From 1994, South Africa has made use of the three pillar strategy: restitution, land tenure reform and redistribution to give land back to the blacks who had lost out through land alienation. Historians have written on how land was the pivot of the liberation struggles of Africa, of how it was important that black governments give land to the natives. According to Solomon Plaatje (1987) blacks were removed from their villages to reserves, homelands and Bantustans without compensation. The South African government has unfinished business where land reform is concerned since a majority of blacks still do not have land and are still steeped in poverty. Using desktop, this paper pored over successes and failures of the South African government in redistributing the scarce resource. The research also commented on recent developments around land reform in South Africa.

Keywords: land alienation, restitution, land redistribution, land tenure, unfinished business

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