ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the formation of new institutions, laws and policies to meet the competing objectives of historical redress and contemporary economic and social development. South Africa's law and governance structures are rapidly changing in the country's endeavour to unmake race, class and gender injustices deriving from apartheid's racialized land policy. In Limpopo Province, the lodging of community claims has primarily been through efforts to prove tribal identity. The re-regulation of land that is taking place through land reform in general, and land restitution in particular, is a conflict-ridden and contradictory process. The SP model coincides with the provincial vision of agriculture as expressed by the MEC for Agriculture that was to be a business, and only a business. In Levubu, the Regional Land Claims Commissioner (RLCC) hired a national non-governmental organization (NGO), Nkuzi Development Association, to assist the communities in restitution process. The communal property association added a new layer to already existing local structures dealing with communal property.
