ABSTRACT
Land reform in South Africa needs to acknowledge and make good the injustices brought about by spatial discrimination based on race. It must also address the massive underdevelopment that resulted from the policies of racial segregation under Apartheid. In this way, land reform must provide answers to the demands and challenges posed by the market-related economy. The South African land reform programme has developed three distinct routes to achieve these objectives, based on constitutional imperatives to this effect: land restitution, land redistribution and land tenure reform. In fact, these three interrelated programs form a key component of the land reform framework, and are employed alongside mechanisms of financial support, land regulation and the facilitation of land development to achieve the ambitious goals of the land reform initiative (Badenhorst et al. 2006: 593).
