Land reform in South Africa remains a major challenge for the post-apartheid state. Letsoalo explores the various attempts, deceptions and elitist interests that frustrate policy framing and implementation beneficial to dispossessed South Africans.

This is a rejoinder to The Land Is Ours: South Africa’s First Black Lawyers and the Birth of Constitutionalism by Tembeka Nqcukaitobi.  Contrary to the name of the book, “the land belongs to us” is not about land dispossession or land reform. It is about constitutionalism; the first generation of black lawyers; and how they used their “colonial education” experience to advance the struggle against discrimination and inequality in South Africa.