UWC Land Collection
The University of the Western Cape’s Land Collection is a digital archive of information about land rights, reform, and politics in South Africa. From the repeal of apartheid land laws, the creation of the property clause in the Constitution, land dispossession and evictions, to land claims and restitution, occupations, customary rights, farm dwellers, expropriation, and more, this collection provides an overview of critical developments in land in the country.
From 1990 to the present, this information democratises access to information, encourages critical thinking and debate about land, supports research and training, and preserves material that tells South Africa’s land story for future generations.
Scroll across the timeline to see which materials are available from state institutions. It includes policies, laws, reports and court documents.
Keep an eye on our social media, where we will announce new additions to the archive, including published and unpublished research materials and information from civil society, activist and community-based organisations in the land sector.
This collection is a project of the South African Research Chair in Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, funded by the South African Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) and National Research Foundation (NRF), and jointly implemented by the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) and the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR), both at the University of the Western Cape (UWC). Materials in the collection have been curated from within PLAAS’s own resource centre, as well as individual researchers’ holdings. The collection forms part of UWC’s New Archival Visions project.
Do you have materials you would like to contribute to this collection? Send it here.