Land & Accountability Research Centre UCT

The Land and Accountability Research Centre (LARC) is based in the University of Cape Town’s Faculty of Law.  LARC forms part of a collaborative network, constituted as the Alliance for Rural Democracy, which provides strategic support to struggles for the recognition and protection of rights and living customary law in the former homeland areas of South Africa.  LARC is particularly interested by the ways in which laws and policies frame power relations within these areas and threaten ongoing initiatives for democratic change and accountability at the local level.