ABSTRACT
Liberalization and privatization are held to be indispensable conditions of development. These trends in governance which assume that development materializes through the free market are impacting on legislation, policy and programmes in South Africa. The South African government is nominal owner of most of the land and housing located in the former homelands and selfgoverning territories, representing almost 13 per cent of the total South African territory. Most towns created to further apartheid’s displaced urbanization policy in these territories are now targeted for tenure reform.
