Res Publica: A South African Perspective

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Type:	Conference Paper
Author:	Mbodla, Ntusi
Conference:	Constituting the Commons: Crafting Sustainable Commons in the New Millennium, the Eighth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property
Location:	Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Conf. Date:	May 31-June 4
Date:	2000
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/2374
Sector:	Social Organization Land Tenure & Use
Region:	Africa
Subject(s):	IASC common pool resources Apartheid parks land tenure and use indigenous institutions property rights common law
Abstract:	"This paper is in four parts. First, I examine the role of the apartheid law in disfiguring the common law notion of res publica. Secondly, I look at the perceived conflict between public property and land restitution in terms Restitution of Land Rights Act 22 of 1994, as amended. Thirdly, I look at specific issues such as whether indigenous/rural communities subsistence needs should be recognised, and more specifically, whether they should have a place within the National Parks. Last, but by no means the least, a possible solution is determined. It should be noted that this paper will begin as a broad theme on res publica but in the course of the presentation attention will be bestowed upon National Parks i.e. a kind of res publica."

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