This act was enacted to provide for measures with State assistance to facilitate long-term security of land tenure; to regulate the conditions of residence on certain land; to regulate the conditions on and circumstances under which the right of persons to reside on land may be terminated; and to regulate the conditions and circumstances under which persons, whose right of residence has been terminated, may be evicted from land; and to provide for matters connected therewith.

Act enacted to provide for the the temporary protection of certain rights to and interests in land which are not otherwise adequately protected by law; and to provide for matters connected therewith.

Subjects
South African Land Reform, Policy, Legislation, Land Rights

ANC land manifesto endorsed draft for national conference, discussing proposed land policy that will devise a comprehensive land reform in post-apartheid South Africa.

This is a summit where farm workers, farm dwellers, leaders of government, the private sector, organized labour and civil society, led by the President, came together on 30 – 31 July 2010 in Western Cape to discuss the critical need to build good working relations and living conditions for vulnerable workers within the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries sectors. The discussions centered on the social determinants of health; working conditions; tenure security; and empowerment and training for vulnerable workers.

The Proactive Land Acquisition Strategy is a strategic land reform intervention that involves the acquisition of land and other property (movable and immovable) that is then held by the state for the use by lessees of the programme. They will then enter into a long term lease with the Department – the length of the lease will depend on the land use, the commodity and the intention of the lessee, among other things.

To amend the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, so as to provide that where land and any improvements thereon are expropriated for the purposes of land reform, the amount of compensation payable may be nil; to provide that national legislation must provide circumstances where the amount of compensation is nil; to provide for land to be the common heritage of all citizens that the state must safeguard for future generations; to require that conditions should be fostered to enable state custodianship of certain land in order for citizens to gain access to land on an equitable basis; and to provide for matters connected therewith.

This policy brief will first, define CBM and outline both its distinct features and the legal and policy basis for it in the South African context, in order to make the case for its inclusion within the broader SER monitoring framework. The second section will consider: what is to be monitored?; How is monitoring done?; and, who should do the monitoring?. In answering these foundational questions, section two will discuss various CBM tools and instruments used in South Africa. Third, this paper will raise a number of key questions and challenges for the SER Monitoring Project in terms of how citizen based monitoring can be supported and incorporated into monitoring at other levels – most
notably the statistical indicators which the project aims to monitor and track over time.

An analysis of the policy effort, resource allocation and expenditure and enjoyment of the right to social security.