Overview of Main Challenges with Regards to Land Tenure in Africa: Factual and Legal Aspects

Author(s):  
Mabel Munyuki-Hungwe ◽  
Mandivamba Rukuni
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1993 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 585-600 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gino J. Naldi

The Government of Zimbabwe has only recently begun to implement the commitment of the liberation movements to give land to poor ‘communal’ farmers, especially those dispossessed by the whiteminority régime after Rhodesia's unilateral declaration of independence in 1965. It needs to be recalled that by virtue of the Land Tenure Act of 1969 almost half of the country's agricultural land was allocated to Europeans, who had ‘greater access to the regions considered suited to intensive crop and livestock production’, and that ‘On average, each of the nearly 7,000 European farms was roughly 100 times the size of any of the 700,000 or so holdings in the Tribal Trust Lands’. The fact that much of this land was under-utilised only served to increase African resentment.


1946 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 211-220
Author(s):  
N. T. Brooke
Keyword(s):  

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-188
Author(s):  
Karyoto Karyoto

The origin of land asset PT Panca Wira Usaha owned by East Java Province company, obtained from former land of western rights, relics of Dutch company at the time of colonize in Indonesia. Dutch dominate the land through Verenigde Oost - Indische Compagnie (VOC). VOC is a Dutch-owned legal entity engaged in trade. Before VOC control land in Indonesia, the control of the land is still done by Kings in the territory of his power, as well as by the customary law community within its territory. When the VOC came to Indonesia around 1577 with the intention to trade and made the kingdom of Mataram a protectorate and since then the role of local officials gradually began to change. The arrival of VOC in Indonesia aims for the following matters: Prevent competition among Dutch traders Obtain a trade monopoly in south Asia or exclusively master the spices both in producing and trading VOC as a Dutch-owned legal entity engaged in trade, it is a little more know the public legal aspects as the influence of Roman law, although no relation belongs to the land, but VOC make agreements with the landowners as if to voc charge as an obligation to rent land through an agreement that is essentially so that the visible aspect of democracy appears. The Dutch Government established factories in big cities after the VOC successfully mastered inland village for agriculture, plantation and others. One of the factory is Oil Factory "N. V OLIEFABRIEKEN INLINDIE" or known as "Pabrik Minyak Nabati-Yasa PT Panca Wira Usaha", located in Kediri City Government of East Java Province, which is currently a problem between PT Panca Wira Usaha, East Java Provincial Government Owned Enterprises with the Community of the landowners. The main issue is the provisions of the Law regulating the Dutch Heritage Company, such as Law No. 86 Of 1958 about the nationalization of Dutch-owned enterprises in Indonesia, not supported by UUPA No. 5 Of 1960 on the basic rules of agrarian basic. While UUPA No. 5 Of 1960 has not been clear in explaining and describing the meaning and substance of the land of the former western rights of the Dutch company, resulting in land tenure by the community.


1941 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 173
Author(s):  
Marshall Harris
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1983 ◽  
Author(s):  
A Berman ◽  
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R. Cohen-Sandler

2003 ◽  
pp. 50-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Medvedeva ◽  
A. Timofeev

The article analyzes legal aspects of institutes of corporate governance. Different draft laws "On Joint-Stock Companies" are considered which reflected interests of separate groups of participants of market relations. Stages of property redistribution are outlined. The advantages of the model of the open joint-stock company are formulated. Special attention is paid to the demand for legal institutes of corporate governance as well as to the process of accepting the Federal Law "On Entering Amendments to the Federal Law "On Joint-Stock Companies"" which was enacted in 2002. The article contains proposals directed at improvement of corporate legislation.


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