Land restitution in South Africa: Is there another way to achieve land justice?

Abstract

Simon’s Town was transformed by the apartheid policies that uprooted and expelled the entire population of ‘coloured’ and African families who had lived in the area for generations. BEN COUSINS presents the context for a survey of possible policy missteps since 1994 around land reform in South Africa – and a controversial argument against land ‘restitution’. Below is a presentation he made at the Simon’s Town Museum in March 2023, which was attended by many members of the dispossessed community.