TY - BOOK ID - 126538172 TI - To whom belongs the land ? : Leviticus 25 in an African liberationist reading PY - 2018 SN - 9781433138935 143313893X PB - New York: Peter Lang, DB - UniCat KW - Land tenure KW - Land reform KW - Liberation theology. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:126538172 AB - In this study, Ndikho Mtshiselwa recognises that the land question is at the heart of the socio-economic challenges that are currently gripping South Africa. He correctly apportions some of the blame to colonialism and apartheid, which seem to be kept alive through the neo-liberal policies that were adopted by the ruling government of the day. These are the very policies that are the outcome of a negotiated settlement which safeguarded and appeased those who unscrupulously controlled and continue to control the vast economic resources of South Africa. Employing the Jubilee principles as contained in Leviticus 25:8-55, Mtshiselwa starts a conversation on the question of land in South Africa and argues that impetus for such a conversation is informed by the Jubilee principles. The arguments made in this study on the land question and its interaction with the biblical Jubilee principles are clear and lucid. One immediately recognises the immense influence that Black Theology of Liberation has had on the author in the arguments set forth. This study is a thoughtful and in-depth contribution to black theological scholarship in present day South Africa. It is particularly paramount in a time of numerous calls for the Africanization of knowledge production in South Africa. Anyone who is serious about the issues of poverty, the land question in South Africa, the economic disparities between Blacks and Whites in South Africa, among others, must wrestle with this text. ER -