Post conflict boundary systems : Browns Farm, Cape Town

Barry, Michael

Zeitschrift fur Vermessungswesen. - Vol. 132, No. 1 (2007) ; p. 26-31

As South Africa transformed from the apartheid system to a non-racial democracy, so a number of land reform and land tenure options were proposed during the negotiations leading up to the first elections in 1994. Accompanying these proposals were a number of suggestions for the determination of cadastral boundaries and for registering land. The community in the Browns Farm settlement had experienced high levels of violent conflict prior to their settling there and it was important to measure, amongst other factors critical to effective land adminsitration, what system of cadastral boundaries would be appropriate in such a settlement in th elong term.

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