{"id":879,"date":"2012-01-26T16:47:41","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T14:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/law\/?page_id=879"},"modified":"2025-07-02T10:57:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:57:36","slug":"prof-jm-pienaar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/law\/staff\/privaat-reg-private-law\/prof-jm-pienaar\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof Juanita Pienaar"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Waarnemende Dekaan | Acting Dean<\/h2>\n<p>B.luris LLM LLD (Potch)<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/law\/files\/2024\/02\/Juanita-Pienaar_2-web-photoaidcom-cropped.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8444\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/law\/files\/2024\/02\/Juanita-Pienaar_2-web-photoaidcom-cropped-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/law\/files\/2024\/02\/Juanita-Pienaar_2-web-photoaidcom-cropped-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/law\/files\/2024\/02\/Juanita-Pienaar_2-web-photoaidcom-cropped-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/law\/files\/2024\/02\/Juanita-Pienaar_2-web-photoaidcom-cropped-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/law\/files\/2024\/02\/Juanita-Pienaar_2-web-photoaidcom-cropped-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/law\/files\/2024\/02\/Juanita-Pienaar_2-web-photoaidcom-cropped-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/law\/files\/2024\/02\/Juanita-Pienaar_2-web-photoaidcom-cropped-2048x2048.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Email\/E-pos: <a href=\"mailto:jmp@sun.ac.za\">jmp@sun.ac.za<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7671-0821\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/orcid_16x16.png\" alt=\"ORCID iD icon\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7671-0821\">https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7671-0821\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"1\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 100%\" border=\"0\" align=\"none\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 48%;text-align: justify\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Juanita M Pienaar is professor in Private Law at the Stellenbosch University and extraordinary professor at the North West University (2015-2017). She obtained the following degrees: B.Iuris (cum laude), LL.B, LL.M en LL.D \u2013 North West University (Potchefstroom). She lectures Customary Law, Property Law and Advanced Property Law. Her research focus is Property Law in general and land reform and related matters in particular. The latter culminated in an encompassing publication <em>Land Reform<\/em> (Juta 2014), forming part of the <em>Juta Property Law Library<\/em>.\u00a0 She has co-authored some of the standard Property Law publications, including <em>Silberberg and Schoeman\u2019s Law of Property<\/em> (with Badenhorst P and Mostert H) and <em>Principles of the Law of Property<\/em> (Mostert H and Pope A (eds)). She is also responsible for the Land Reform section of the <em>LAWSA<\/em>\u00a0\u201cLand\u201d title (2010, with Mostert H and Van Wyk J) and the chapter on \u201cLand\u201d in <em>Constitutional Law of South Africa<\/em> (with Brickhill J). She was a member of the Advisory Committee of the Law Commission (<em>Land Legislation<\/em> 2008-2011) and was acting judge in the Land Claims Court for the period: 2006-2007. <strong>\u00a0<\/strong>She is a fellow of the NRF Research Chair in Property Law and is a B3-NRF-rated researcher (2012-2017). She was awarded the Rector\u2019s Award for Excellence in Research and was a member of the NRF Expert Panel for Law (ending in 2017).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">She was Head of the Private Law Department for the period: 2015-2018.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 30px\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Juanita M Pienaar is professor in Privaatreg aan die Regsfakulteit, Stellenbosch Universiteit en buitengewone professor aan die Regsfakulteit van die Noord-Wes Universiteit (2015-2017). Sy het die volgende grade verwerf: B.Iuris (cum laude), LL.B, LL.M en LL.D \u2013 Noord-Wes Universiteit (Potchefstroom). Sy doseer Inheemse reg, Sakereg en Gevorderde Sakereg. Haar besondere navorsingsfokus is grondhervorming en verwante aangeleenthede wat in 2014 neerslag gevind het in \u0149 omvattende boekpublikasie <em>Land Reform<\/em> (Juta 2014 \u2013 deel van die <em>Juta Property Law Library)<\/em>.\u00a0 Sy is mede-outeur van sommige van die standaard Sakeregbronne, onder meer <em>Silberberg and Schoeman\u2019s Law of Property<\/em> (saam met P Badenhorst en H Mostert) en <em>Principles of the Law of Property<\/em> (H Mostert en A Pope (red)). Sy is ook verantwoordelik vir die grondhervormingsgedeelte in die <em>LAWSA<\/em> titel \u201cLand\u201d (2010, saam met H Mostert en J van Wyk) en die \u201cLand\u201d hoofstuk in <em>Constitutional Law of South Africa<\/em> (saam met J Brickhill). Sy was lid van die Advieskomitee van die Regskommissie (Hersiening van Grond-wetgewing 2008-2011) en was vir die tydperk 2006-2007 waarnemende regter in die Grondeisehof. Sy is \u0149 genoot van die NNS Leerstoel in Sakereg en beskik oor \u0149 B3-NNS-evaluering (2012-2017). Sy is \u0149 ontvanger van die Rektorstoekenning vir Voortreflike Navorsing en het op die NNS-Deskundigheidspaneel vir Regte vir die tydperk 2014-2017, gedien.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sy was Voorsitter van Privaatreg vir die tydperk: 2015-2018.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 48%;text-align: justify\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\"><strong>Modules taught<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sakereg<\/p>\n<p>Inheemse reg<\/p>\n<p>Statut\u00eare Sakereg<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 30px\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Modules aangebied<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sakereg<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Inheemse reg<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Statut\u00eare Sakereg<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 48%;text-align: justify\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\"><strong>Fields of specialisation\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Property Law, Land Reform and Customary Law<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 30px\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Areas van belangstelling<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sakereg, Grondhervorming en Inheemse Reg<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Publications\/Publikasies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Book\/Books\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disc\">\n<li>Pienaar JM <em>Land Reform<\/em> (Juta 2014).<\/li>\n<li>Badenhorst PJ, Pienaar JM and Mostert H <em>Silberberg<\/em> <em>and Schoeman\u2019s Law of Property<\/em> 5<sup>th<\/sup> ed 2006.<\/li>\n<li>Mostert H, Pienaar JM and Van Wyk J \u201cLand\u201d <em>Law of South Africa<\/em> (2010) LexisNexis (responsible for the \u201cLand Reform\u201d section).<\/li>\n<li>Pienaar JM and Brickhill J Chapter 48: \u201cLand\u201d in Woolman S et al (eds) <em>The Constitutional Law of South Africa<\/em> (2007) Juta.<\/li>\n<li>Authored and co-authored 3 Chapters in <em>The Principles of the Law of Property in South Africa<\/em> in Mostert H and Pope A (eds) (2010) OUP \u2013 both the Afrikaans and the English versions .<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 6 \u201cEiendom\u201d \/ \u201cProperty\u201d in <em>Introduction to Legal Pluralism<\/em> in Rautenbach C et al (eds) \u2013 Both English and Afrikaans versions (2014) LexisNexis.<\/li>\n<li>Pienaar JM and Kamkuemah A \u201cFarm land and tenure security: new policy and legislative developments\u201d in Liebenberg S and Quinot G (eds) <em>Law and poverty: Perspectives from South African and beyond<\/em> (2012) Juta 282-299.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cLand \u2013 farm land and tenure security in M Swilling et al (eds) <em>Sustainable Stellenbosch: Opening Dialogues<\/em> (2012) Sun Press 48-58.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cEl Acceso a la Vivienda en SudAfrica: Dimensiones Y Mecanismos in Metodod alternatives de accessoalo vivienda enel context de crisis <em>(Alternative methods of access to housing in crisis context)<\/em> in SN Aznar (ed) 2011) Edisofer 455-472.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cUnlawful occupier\u201d in perspective: history, legislation and case law\u201d in Mostert H and De Waal MJ (eds) (2011) LexisNexis <em>Essays in Honour of CG van der Merwe<\/em> 317-338.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cLessons from the Cape: beyond South Africa\u2019s Transformation Act\u201d in Godden L and Tehan M (eds) <em>Comparative Perspectives on Communal Lands and Individual Ownership: Sustainable Futures<\/em> (2010) Routledge 186-213.<\/li>\n<li>\u201c\u2019As a result of racially discriminatory laws and practices\u2019 for purposes of the Restitution of Land Rights Act 22 of 1994: case law analysis\u201d in Habdas M &amp; Wudarski A (eds) <em>Festschrift f\u00fcr Stanislawa Kalus<\/em> (Peter Lang \u2013 Frankfurt) 2010 385-408.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Journal articles\/Joernaalartikels\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;list-style-type: disc\">\n<li>\u00a0Pienaar JM \u201cReflections on the South African land reform programme: characteristics, dichotomies and tensions (Part 1)\u201d 2014 (3) <em>TSAR <\/em>425-446.<\/li>\n<li>Pienaar JM \u201cReflections on the South African land reform programme: characteristics, dichotomies and tensions (Part 2)\u201d 2014 (4) <em>TSAR <\/em>689-705.<\/li>\n<li>Pienaar JM, du Plessis W and Olivier NJJ \u201cLand matters 2014 (1)\u201d 2014 (1) <em>Southern African Public Law.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Du Plessis W, JM pienaar and NJJ Olivier \u201cOnrus en Geweld 2014 (1)\u201d 2014 (1) <em>Southern African Public Law.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Pienaar JM, du Plessis W and Olivier NJJ \u201cLand matters 2014 (2)\u201d 2014 (2) <em>Southern African Public Law.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Du Plessis W, JM pienaar and NJJ Olivier \u201cOnrus en Geweld 2014 (2)\u201d 2014 (2) <em>Southern African Public Law.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Van der Merwe &amp; Pienaar JM \u201cLaw of Property (including mortgage and pledge) 2012 <em>Annual Survey <\/em>717-805 (published in 2014).<\/li>\n<li>Pienaar JM \u201cMechanics of intervention and the Green Paper on Land Reform\u201d 2014 <em>PER.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Boggenpoel Z and Pienaar JM \u201cThe continued relevance of the <em>mandament van spolie<\/em>: recent developments relating to dispossession and eviction\u201d 2013 (4) <em>De Jure<\/em> 998.<\/li>\n<li>W du Plessis, JM Pienaar and NJJ Olivier \u201cLand matters 2013 (1)\u201d 2013 (1) <em>Southern African Public Law.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>W du Plessis, JM Pienaar and NJJ Olivier \u201cLand matters 2013 (2)\u201d 2013 (2) <em>Southern African Public Law.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>W du Plessis, JM Pienaar and NJJ Olivier \u201cOnrus en Geweld: 2013 (1)\u201d 2013 (1) <em>Southern African Public Law.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>W du Plessis, JM Pienaar and NJJ Olivier \u201cOnrus en Geweld: 2013 (2)\u201d 2013 (2) <em>Southern African Public Law.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Pienaar JM \u201cEen honderd jaar later: Herdenking van die Swart Grond Wet 27 van 1913\u201d <em>Litt Net: Akademies \u2013 Regte<\/em> \u2013 Junie 2013.<\/li>\n<li>Van der Merwe CG &amp; Pienaar JM \u201cLaw of Property (including\u00a0 mortgage and pledge) 2011 <em>Annual Survey <\/em>890-995 (published in 2013).<\/li>\n<li>Pienaar JM \u201cAccess to housing in South Africa: An overview of dimensions and mechanisms\u201d 2011 <em>Journal for Juridical Science<\/em> 119-140 \u2013 published in 2012.<\/li>\n<li>Pienaar JM \u201cDie betekenis van \u2018n ontneming weens \u2018n rasdiskriminerende wet of praktyk vir doeleindes van die Wet op die Herstel van Grondbesitregte 22 van 1994: \u2018n oorsig van ontwikkelings in regspraak\u201d 2012 <em>Litnet Akademies Regte<\/em> 107-140.<\/li>\n<li>Pienaar JM, Du Plessis W and Olivier NJJ \u201cLand matters and rural development: 2012\u201d 2012 27(2) <em>Southern African Public Law<\/em> 588-627.<\/li>\n<li>Pienaar JM, Du Plessis W en Olivier NJJ \u201cOnrus en geweld: 2012\u201d 2012 27(2) <em>Southern African Public Law<\/em> 577-587.<\/li>\n<li>Van der Merwe CG and Pienaar JM \u201cLaw of property (including real security) 2010 <em>Annual Survey of South African Law<\/em> 1001-1101 (published in 2012).<\/li>\n<li>Du Plessis W, Pienaar JM and Olivier NJJ \u201cGeweld: 2011 (1)\u201d 2011(1) <em>Southern African Public Law 508-520.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Du Plessis W, Pienaar JM and Olivier NJJ \u201cLand matters: 2011\u201d 2011(1) <em>Southern African Public Law<\/em> 521-563.<\/li>\n<li>Du Plessis W, Olivier NJJ and\u00a0 Pienaar JM \u201cGeweld: 2011 (2)\u201d 2011(2) <em>Southern African Public Law 279-291.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Pienaar JM and Kamkuemah A \u201cFarm land and tenure security: New Policy and Legislative developments\u201d 2011 (3) <em>Stellenbosch Law Review<\/em> 724-741.<\/li>\n<li>Van der Merwe CG and Pienaar JM \u201cLaw of Property (including mortgage and pledge)\u201d 2009 <em>Annual Survey<\/em> 897-970 (published in 2011).<\/li>\n<li>Pienaar JM \u201cThe non-restoration of land in South-Africa: Practical examples and remaining questions\u201d 2011 <em>Property Law Review<\/em> <em>(Australia)<\/em> 32767-32779.<\/li>\n<li>Pienaar JM \u201cTenure reform in South Africa: Overview and challenges\u201d 2011 (1) <em>Speculum Iuris<\/em> 108-133.<\/li>\n<li>Pienaar JM \u201cRestitutionary road: reflecting on good governance and the role of the Land Claims Court\u201d <em>PER <\/em>2011, vol 2, no 7 Aug 30.<\/li>\n<li>Van der Merwe CG and Pienaar JM \u201cLaw of Property (including mortgage and pledge)\u201d <em>Annual Survey of South African Law<\/em> (2008) 965-1057 \u2013 published in 2010.<\/li>\n<li>Pienaar JM and Geyser K \u2018\u201cOccupier\u201d for purposes of the Extension of Security of Tenure Act: the plight of female spouses and widows\u2019 (2010) 73(2) <em>THRHR<\/em> 248.<\/li>\n<li>Du Plessis W and Pienaar JM \u201cThe more things change the more they stay the same: The story of communal land tenure in South Africa\u201d 2010 <em>Fundamina Editio Specialis<\/em> 73-89.<\/li>\n<li>Du Plessis W, Olivier NJJ and\u00a0 Pienaar JM \u201cLand matters: 2010\u201d 2010(1) <em>Southern African Public Law<\/em> 292-318.<\/li>\n<li>Du Plessis W, Olivier NJJ and\u00a0 Pienaar JM \u201cGeweld 2010\u201d 2010(1) <em>Southern African Public Law.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Other\/Ander\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disc\">\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Pienaar JM \u201cLand Reform\u201d \u2013 Juta Quarterly Review 2014.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Pienaar JM \u201cLand Reform\u201d \u2013 Juta Quarterly Review 2013.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Pienaar JM \u201cLand Reform\u201d \u2013 Juta Quarterly Review 2012.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Pienaar JM \u201cLand Reform\u201d \u2013 Juta Quarterly Review 2011.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Pienaar JM \u201cLand Reform\u201d \u2013 Juta Quarterly Review 2010.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Privaatreg \/ Private Law\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/law\/staff\/privaat-reg-private-law\/\">Terug \/ Back<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waarnemende Dekaan | Acting Dean B.luris LLM LLD (Potch) Email\/E-pos: jmp@sun.ac.za https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7671-0821\u00a0 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Juanita M Pienaar is professor in Private Law at the Stellenbosch University and extraordinary professor at the North West University (2015-2017). She obtained the following degrees: B.Iuris (cum laude), LL.B, LL.M en LL.D \u2013 North West University (Potchefstroom)&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2085,"featured_media":0,"parent":422,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-879","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2085"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10466,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/879\/revisions\/10466"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}