Urban land restitution in post-apartheid South Africa: Questions from the Johannesburg inner-city
✍ Scribed by Susan Parnell; Keith Beavon
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 750 KB
- Volume
- 39
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0343-2521
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✦ Synopsis
In an attempt to address the racial injustices of the past, a Land Claims Court has been established in post-apartheid South Africa. This paper draws attention to the folly of compensating property owners not tenants. It uses a case study of the Johannesburg inner-city suburb of Pageview to highlight the fact that Indian landlords, although forcibly segregated and themselves racially oppressed, profited from rack-renting to poor African, coloured and Indian people. Working class Indian organizations alleged that to protect this position of relative privilege, landlords opposed the provision of segregated public housing in the 1940s and 1950s. As the only individuals with legal title to Pageview property landlords now stand to gain from the land claims court while tenants are excluded from any restitution. * This research is drawn from Beavon and Parnell (1991) which is a much extended unpublished version of this paper containing the full references to the primary material drawn from: Central Archive Depot (Cad); South African Transport Services Library Archive (Satsla): Intermediate Archive Depot Johannesburg (Iad), City Health Department Archive (Chda).