ABSTRACT

This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book examines the justiciablility of the problem from a historical and legal context of both the Southern African Development Community (SADC) States themselves, and the international legal system. It analyses the emergence in SADC States of titles to land that created binary oppositions of race, class, status that sustained and perpetuated inequitable land distribution among peoples of the region. The book considers conceptions of real property before colonisation of SADC communities. It shows that the land issue in affected SADC States appears to be an equal and opposite reaction to the legal violence that alienated native people from their land and forced them into wage earners from the new landlords and to be “squatters” in the land of their forefathers. The book also analyses humwe’s capacity efficiently to resolve the land issue in SADC States.