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Community, Conflict and Land: Exploring the Strategic Partnership Model of South African Land Restitution
Author(s) -
Basu Soutrik
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of international development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.533
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1099-1328
pISSN - 0954-1748
DOI - 10.1002/jid.3150
Subject(s) - restitution , general partnership , strategic partnership , power (physics) , state (computer science) , debt , negotiation , process (computing) , political science , business , political economy , sociology , economic growth , economics , public administration , law , finance , physics , algorithm , quantum mechanics , computer science , operating system
The Strategic Partnership (SP) model was implemented in the South African land restitution programme. The model prematurely ended in a fiasco that left the community with huge debts and intractable conflicts. This paper aims at understanding the implementation process by taking up the issue of how conflict emerged, resolved and sustained around the SP model. This paper suggests that conflict emerged because of the following reasons: the policy framework failed to address the heterogeneity of the community; community value was undermined as a business partner; and the state placed unprecedented trust, power, and authority on strategic partners. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.