Research Catalog

Title

Promised land : exploring South Africa's land conflict / Karl Kemp.

Author

Kemp, Karl

Publication

Cape Town, South Africa : Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House South Africa, 2020.

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Details

Description

xvii, 350 pages : maps; 23 cm

Summary

"Land reform and the possibility of expropriation without compensation are among the most hotly debated topics in South Africa today, met with trepidation and fervour in equal measure. But these broader issues tend to obscure a more immediate reality: a severe housing crisis and a sharp increase in urban land occupations. In Promised Land, Karl Kemp travels the country documenting the fallout of failing land reform, from the under-siege Philippi Horticultural Area deep in the heart of Cape Town's ganglands to the burning mango groves of Tzaneen, from Johannesburg's lawless Deep South to rural KwaZulu-Natal, where chiefs own vast tracts of land on behalf of their subjects. He visits farming communities beset by violent crime, and provides gripping, on-the-ground reporting of recent land invasions, with perspectives from all sides, including land activists, property owners and government officials. Kemp also looks at burning issues surrounding the land debate in South Africa - corruption, farm murders, illegal foreign labour, mechanisation and eviction - and reveals the views of those affected. Touching on the history of land conflict and conquest in each area, as well as detailing the current situation on the ground, Promised Land provides startling insights into the story of land conflict in South Africa." --Publisher's description.

Alternative Title

Exploring South Africa's land conflict

Subject

• Land reform > South Africa
• Land use, Urban > Africa, Southern
• Housing > South Africa
• Land tenure > South Africa
• Réforme agraire > Afrique du Sud
• Utilisation urbaine du sol > Afrique australe
• Land tenure
• Housing
• Land reform
• Land use, Urban
• South Africa
• Southern Africa

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part one: 1. The great cattle-killing and other stories -- 2. Return the land -- 3. A winelands murder -- 4. Trench warfare -- 5. The urban farmers -- 6. Hand of God -- 7. Dwaalarbeiders -- 8. Addicted to black labour -- 9. The sound of hammers -- 10. A plurality of revolutions -- Part two: 11. The knife edge -- 12. The contours of a crisis -- 13. Burning the mango grove -- 14. The stadts of Zeerust -- 15. The land-grab blueprint -- 16. The deep South -- 17. The making of a township -- 18. Inside Gabon -- 19. Foreigners on the banks of the Jukskei -- 20. The place of weeping

ISBN

• 9781776094752
• 1776094751
• 9781776094769 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

• on1224977002
• 1224977002
• SCSB-9764609

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library