Land (and settlement) reform post-expropriation : shifting the focus to the 'sustainable human settlement development' imperative

Abstract

Land reform in South Africa has paid less attention to the creation of fair and viable postapartheid urban human settlements than it has to rural land reform. While expropriation of land with or without compensation will deliver land, the question as to what happens post-expropriation has not been addressed. A reconsideration and redesign of the South African legal, policy and institutional frameworks, and spatial planning instruments are required, in order to enable the process of urban land reform to deliver on the development of sustainable human settlements. Since a number of countries have successfully dealt with large-scale restructuring and redevelopment, an examination of the methods employed in two countries, namely Rwanda, post-the genocide in 1994, and The Netherlands, post-World War II, is undertaken to facilitate that process.

Grondhervorming in Suid-Afrika het minder aandag geskenk aan die skepping van stedelike regverdige en leefbare post-apartheid menslike nedersettings, as aan landelike grondhervorming. Alhoewel onteiening van grond met of sonder vergoeding wel grond beskikbaar sal stel, is die vraag eerder wat ná onteiening gebeur. Suid-Afrika se regs-, beleids- en institusionele raamwerke, en ruimtelike beplanningsinstrumente moet heroorweeg en herontwerp word, sodat die proses van stedelike grondhervorming kan voldoen aan die ontwikkeling van volhoubare menslike nedersettings. Omdat daar lande is wat grootskaalse herstrukturering en herontwikkeling suksesvol aangepak het, word ondersoek ingestel na die metodes wat in twee lande, naamlik Rwanda, na die 1994-volksmoorde, en Nederland, na die Tweede Wêreldoorlog, aangewend is om daardie proses te fasiliteer.

Phetoho ea tsamaiso ea lefatshe naheng ea Afrika Borwa e shebane ho fetola metse ea mahaeng ho feta ho kenyeletsa toka khahong ea metse ea litoroppong kamora nako ea aparateiti. Le hoja ho khutlisa lefatshe, eba ka ho fana ka matshediso kapa che, ho tla tlisa lefatshe ho ba bang ba le hlokang, potso e so kang e arajoa ke hore na hotla etsahalang kamora hore lefatshe le khutle. Ho hlokahala phetoho ea melao le meralo ea thero ea lefatshe molemong oa ho netefatsa hore phetoho ea lefatshe e tlisa ntlafatso e tsitsitseng ea metse e litoropong. Kaha ho se ho ntse ho ena le linaha tse kileng tsa fetola tsamaiso le ntlafatso ea lefatshe, boithuto bona bo sebelisitse mehlala ea naha ea Rwanda kamora ntoa ea 1994, le naha ea Netherlands kamora Ntoa ea Bobeli ea Lefatshe.