"As post-apartheid South Africa began to take shape in the early 1990s, the country committed itself to a programme of land restitution to redress the brutal uprooting and relocation of people under apartheid. After 1994 this programme came to form one leg of a wider process of land reform." "This complex and challenging terrain is the subject of Cherryl Walker's new book. Drawing on her long involvement in the investigation of forced removals and her experience as Regional Land Claims Comissioner for KwaZulu-Natal from 1995 to 2000, she provides an account of the programme of land restitution as a whole and the limitations of its 'master narrative' of loss and restoration."--BOOK JACKET.