Raphael Chaskalson
Land, Law and Chiefs in Rural South Africa,
05/2021
Book Chapter
The ‘land question’ remains at the centre of South African political discourse. Land restitution has been an important strategy for addressing racially unequal ownership of land as well as forced removals in the apartheid era. This chapter focuses on the Hlolweni (2003) land claim, made by 883 families from three poor, rural communities in the Eastern Transkei (Mpondoland) – the villages of Mfolozi, Etyeni and Hlolweni. Starting in 1983, these families were forcefully removed from about 10 000 ha to make way for a sugar cane plantation and outgrower scheme. The families brought a restitution claim to the Eastern Cape
