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Access to land and rural poverty in South Africa
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2012-09)
The big picture: some history
• Large-scale land dispossession from 1652 into the late 20th century
• 1913 and 1936 Land Acts: African majority confined to 13% of country
• Forced removals in apartheid years: 2.5 million ...
The social dynamics of rural poverty in the Eastern Cape
(2017)
Overview
• Structural poverty & its causes • Understanding impoverished livelihoods :
i. Social grants
ii. Informal economic activity
• Social dynamics
• ‘Informal social protection’
• The downside of ‘social capital’
Introduction: Agrarian change, rural poverty and land reform in South Africa since 1994
(Blackwell Publishing, 2013)
This introduction sketches the context and dynamics of agrarian change, rural poverty and
land reform since the end of apartheid in 1994, drawing attention to structural continuities
and new elements in the countrysides ...