'The tragedy of the private': Owners, communities and the state in South Africa's land reform programme

Changing Properties of Property

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 243-267

  James, Deborah ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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