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   direct use value of municipal commonage goods and services to urban households in the Eastern Cape, South Africa

   Journal Articles & Books

   December, 2012

   South Africa, Southern Africa

   Urban Tenure

   urban population

   land reform

   poverty

   To redress past racial discrepancies in ownership and tenure, the ANC government of South Africa initiated programmes to make land accessible to the previously disadvantaged. A key component of the national land reform programme was the provision of commonage lands to urban municipalities for use by the urban poor. However, there has been no assessment of the contribution that urban commonage makes to previously disadvantaged households.