The problem of defining ‘community’: Challenges for the land reform programme in rural South Africa

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• An earlier version of this paper was presented at the International Conference on ‘Land tenure in the developing world’, held at the University of Cape Town on 27–9 January 1998. The article has benefited from comments made by Ben Cousins on earlier drafts and the author takes responsibility for what remains. The author also gratefully acknowledges financial support from the International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada, and useful comments from anonymous referees.
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