Resumen de Land restitution in South Africa, 1991�1994
Recent political developments in South Africa have resulted in a re-evaluation of the position of the individuals and communities who were forcibly removed from their land under apartheid. The first moves at restoring land to the dispossessed took place between 1991 and 1994 in a pragmatic manner. A number of significant acts of restitution were effected with the return of several African rural communities to the land from which they had been forcibly removed. In two areas no progress was made. First, the resolution of urban claims was postponed because of their complexity and numbers. Second, indigenous land claims were effectively rejected as presenting too contentious an issue at a time when fostering a sense of national unity was considered essential.
