Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

This Strategy emerges from a sustained interaction with many land reform practitioners and officials from national and provincial departments and municipalities through research enquiries, specialist reviews, field-based learning sessions, provincial consultative forums and interventions on selected projects. It synthesises the ideas and reflections of many people over a period of 18 months between January 2006 and July 2007. The website on CD-ROM contains this base document, the synthesis document, and a number of detailed background documents.

During this period, the SDC team was ably supported by Belgian Technical Cooperation staff, the Chief Land Claims Commissioner and officials from the Commission on Restitution of Land Rights, the Department of Land Affairs, the National Department of Agriculture, and provincial departments of agriculture.

A wide range of independent researchers and specialists also contributed to the final product, which also benefited from critical review by senior DLA officials and people attending the final round of consultative forums held in the provinces.