Rebecca L. WeberLand reform has always been a popular part of political rhetoric for a democratic South Africa, but agrarian transformation has not been realized in the post-apartheid era. The vast majority of agricultural land is still owned by whites. Black landowners tend to have tiny plots in the former homelands.
While land rights and agricultural development would seem to dovetail, the opposite is often the case. "What shall we talk about first, land or agriculture?" asked a facilitator at a recent development conference, according to Karin Kleinbooi, researcher at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies at the University of the Western Cape. Read more...
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