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Land Reform The struggle of Black South African in obtaining the land

Postgraduate Diploma in Land Tenancy

Land Labour Tenants Diploma, the ultimate impact of the proposed Post-Graduate Diploma in Land Tenancy: History, Precarity and Law will be a deepened understanding of the history, plight, living conditions, land reform law, and land ownership aspirations of former labour tenant farm servitude households with outstanding, and unresolved land claims to privately owned farmland

Academic Institutions

University of Johannesburg, University of Limpopo, and Nelson Mandela University and personnel involved

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This course aims to train 100 state officials working on labour tenant land claims

Land Reform

Welcome to Land Labour Tenants Diploma

The Post-Graduate Diploma in Land Tenancy: History, Precarity and Land is anchored upon a Memorandum of Understanding between the Office of the Special Master of Labour Tenants...

Academic Excellence Land Labour Tenants Diploma is renowned for its commitment
Skill Building the best course to equip the state officials to defend unfair practice to of land labour tenancy
Innovative Learning Immerse yourself in an innovative learning
Postgraduate Diploma Analysis of the Land Reform (Labour Tenant) Act 3 of 1996
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Course Outcomes

i

State officials and related practitioners will be equipped with fundamental progressive elements of land reform law, historical geography research tools, life history documentation skills and Geographic Information Skills (practical aspects of Geographic Information Systems).

ii

State officials will acquire the motivation, knowledge and skills necessary to implement land claims processes and procedures as they relate to labour tenants thus assisting in achieving the speedy and effective resolution of land claims.

iii

State officials will gain academically directed, supported and monitored practical experience of conducting research into and resolving land claims through a practical assignment that will be an important component of the diploma course and on which they will be assessed. This will generate knowledge about the challenges of processing land claims from the point of view of civil servants.

iv

The academic institutions (University of Johannesburg, University of Limpopo, and Nelson Mandela University) and personnel involved will learn and deepen their knowledge of the land question, land restitution and land redistribution from interacting directly with government officials implementing these important processes. This will inform future curriculum development and the research agenda thus expanding the body of knowledge and improving practice

State officials will gain academically directed, supported and monitored practical experience of conducting research into and resolving land claims through a practical assignment that will be an important component of the diploma course and on which they will be assessed.

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Land Claims

In 1996, The president of South Africa Nelson Mandela passed a law, granting farm dwellers the opportunity to submit land claims. The department of Land Affairs received 22,000 land claims, unfortunately the department failed to attend to many claims.

There is no freedom without Land

There are few South African who are living their dreams, they are wealthy. What about others?

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Mathonga Elizwe-
Spirit Of The Land

Film showing the struggles of Black South Africans in obtaining land today. The film zooms in on the three cases where white landlords are adamant in holding onto the land whilst frustrating the land claimants and the land reform process overly and covertly.

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Film showing the struggles of Black South Africans in obtaining land today

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Faculty of Excellence

Discover the distinguished members of our faculty, each contributing to the academic excellence of our institution

Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi
Dr Mnqobi Ngubane
Professor Victor Mmbengwa
Dr Luyanda Mtshali
Dr Yvonne Phyllis
Dr Trevor Ngwane
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Special Master of Labour Tenants with Prof Richard Levin

The Special Master of Labour Tenants (SMLT) is a role in South Africa that helps the government implement the Land Reform (Labour Tenants) Act.

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How was the SMLT appointed?
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Immigrant farm workers, self-exploitation, and social reproduction by Mngobi Ngubane

Diverse, historically embedded, social relations of production and reproduction seldom feature in pessimistic views about land redistribution impacts on farm labour.

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The Lesotho-South African Land-Labour Questions
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Advocacy in Supporting Labour Tenants

Land reform law, and land ownership aspirations of former labour tenant farm servitude households with outstanding, and unresolved land claims to privately owned farmland.

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