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South African Government Policy: Library Guide: Land

Bibliographic records and links of South African government policies, plans and strategies

Land donations

South Africa. Department of Rural Development and Land Reform. Land donations policy. Pretoria: Government Printing Works, February 2020. For public comment. Approved.

Land allocation

South Africa. Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development. National policy for beneficiary selection and land allocation implementation and monitoring framework. Signed by Minister 16.02.2022. 

South Africa. Department of Rural Development and Land Reform. National policy for beneficiary selection and land allocation: draft, 09 November 2019. Version V2 18. Pretoria: Government Printing Works, 2020. Approved.

University of the Witwatersrand. Centre for Applied legal Studies. Submission to the Minister for Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development on the Beneficiary Selection and Land Allocation Policy, March 2020.

State land

South Africa. Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development. State land lease and disposal policy. Pretoria: Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development, April 2024. 

South Africa. Department of Rural Development and Land Reform. State land lease and disposal policy. Pretoria:  Department of Rural Development and Land Reform, [March 2019.] Shelf no. G 68 E.LAND.19.STAT

South Africa. Department of Rural Development and Land Reform. State land lease and disposal policy. Pretoria:  Department of Rural Development and Land Reform, 2013.

Land tenure

South Africa. Department of Rural Development and Land Reform. Final policy proposals on "Strengthening the relative rights of people working the land." Final draft: 12 August 2014.

South Africa. Department of Rural Development and Land Reform. Final policy proposals on "Strengthening the relative rights of people working the land." 21 February 2014.

South Africa. Department of Rural Development and Land Reform. Draft proposal: strengthening the relative rights of people working the land: policy proposals, Tuesday 30 July 2013. 

South Africa. Department of Rural Development and Land Reform. Directorate: Evaluation and Research. Diagnostic Evaluation of Strengthening the Relative Rights of People Working the Land: 50/50 Policy Framework. March 2017.

South Africa. Department of Rural Development and Land Reform. Land tenure security policy for commercial farming areas. Pretoria: Department of Rural Development and Land Reform, July 2013. 

Union policy

South Africa. Department of Native Affairs. Statement of land policy under the Native Trust and Land Act, 1936. Pretoria: Govt. Printer, 1937. Shelf no. G 68 E.NATI.37.STAT

Draft policies

South Africa. Dept. of Land Affairs. Draft land policy principles to be discussed at the National Conference on Land Policy, Thursday 31 August 1995 to Friday 1 September 1995, World Trade Centre, Kempton Park, Gauteng.  [Pretoria :   Department of Land Affairs,   1995]. Shelf no. G 68 E.LAND.95.DRAF
 

White papers

South Africa. Dept. of Land Affairs. White paper on South African land policy.   Pretoria :   Department of Land Affairs,   1997. Shelf no. G 68 E.LAND.97.WHIT

South Africa. Dept. of Land Affairs. White paper on South African land policy. 3rd edition.    Pretoria :   Department of Land Affairs,   2006. Shelf no. G 68 E.LAND.06.WHIT

South Africa. Dept. of Land Affairs. White paper on South African land reform.    [Pretoria :   The Dept.,   1997]  Shelf no. G 68 E.LAND.97.WHIT

South Africa.  White paper on land reform. Pretoria :   Govt. Printer, 1991. Shelf no. G 68 EWP B/1991. 

South Africa. Department of Land Affairs. Wise Land Use : White Paper on Spatial Planning and Land Use Management.  Pretoria: Govt. Printer, 2001. Shelf no. G 68 E.LAND.01.DRAF

 

 

Land Claims

South Africa. Department of Rural Development and Land Reform. Policy on the application of the Rural Economy Transformation Model in the settlement of land claims. Pretoria: Department of Rural Development and Land Reform, 2016.

Recapitalisation

South Africa. Department of Agriculture, Rural Development and Land Reform. Recapitalization and Development Programme (RADP)

South Africa. Department of Rural Development and Land Reform. Policy for the Recapitalisation and Development Programme of the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform, 23 July 2013.

South Africa. Department of Rural Development and Land Reform. Three years review of Recapitalization and Development Programme, September 2013.

Financial Compensation

South Africa. Commission on Restitution of Land Rights. Financial Compensation Policy. Pretoria: Commission on Restitution of Land Rights, 1996.

Settlement strategy

South Africa. Commission on Restitution of Land Rights. Settlement and Implementation Support (SIS) Strategy for Land and Agrarian Reform in South Africa.  Pretoria: Commission on Restitution of Land Rights in the Department of Land Affairs, 2007. Shelf no. G 68 E.LAND.07.SETT

Sustainable Development Consortium (South Africa).  Settlement and Implementation Support (SIS) Strategy for Land and Agrarian Reform in South Africa : Synthesis Document.  Pretoria: Commission on Restitution of Land Rights in the Department of Land Affairs, 2007. Shelf no. G 68 E.LAND.07.SETT

 

 

Surveying

South Africa. Department of Rural Development and Land Reform. Chief Directorate: National Geo-spatial Information. Policy framework for geodetic surveying, aerial imagery and mapping. Version 1. Pretoria: Department of Rural Development and Land Reform, 201-?

Green papers

South Africa. Dept. of Land Affairs. Our land :   green paper on South African land policy, Department of Land Affairs, 1 February 1996.    Pretoria :   Department of Land Affairs,   1996. Shelf no. G 68 E.LAND.96.OURL

South Africa. Dept. of Rural Development and Land Reform.    Green paper on land reform, 2011.    Pretoria :   Department of Rural Development and Land Reform,   2011. Published in SA Government Gazette No. 34607 (16 November 2011), accessible through the Sabinet Legal database. Shelf no. G 68 E.LAND.11.GREE

Article: Erlank, W. Green Paper on Land Reform: Overview and Challenges. P.E.R, Volume 17, no. 2 (2014).

Communal land tenure

South Africa. Department of Rural Development and Land Reform. Communal Land Tenure Policy (CLTP). "Land Reform Policy Workshop, Protea Hotel Stellenbosch (TechnoPark), 23-24 August 2013."

South Africa. Department of Rural Development and Land Reform. The Communal Land Tenure Policy Framework. Pretoria: Department of Rural Development and Land Reform, 2014.]

Communal Land Tenure 1994-2017: Commissioned Report for High Level Panel on the Assessment of Key Legislation and the Acceleration of Fundamental Change, an initiative of the Parliament of South Africa

Information publications

White paper on land reform :   land reform : a summary of existing land tenure systems.    Pretoria :   Bureau for Information,   1991. Shelf no. G 68 E.INFO.91.WHIT

Land acquisition

South Africa. Department of Land Affairs.   Implementation Plan for the Proactive Land Acquisition Strategy  Version 1. Pretoria?: Department of Land Affairs?, 2006. Shelf no. G 68 E.LAND.06.IMPL

South Africa. Department of Rural Development and Land Affairs. Directorate: Evaluation and Research. Implementation evaluation of Proactive Land Acquisition Strategy (PLAS)February 2015.

 

Grants and services

South Africa. Department of Land Affairs. Grants and Services Policy of the Department of Land Affairs. Version 7. Pretoria: Department of Land Affairs. "Minister approved 16 July 2001."

Frameworks

South Africa. Dept. of Land Affairs. Land Policy :   framework document. [Pretoria :   The Dept],   1995. Shelf no. G 68 E.LAND.95.LAND