Dynamics of social differentiation after land reform among former labour tenants in Besters, KwaZulu-Natal

Abstract

• Locate land reform in SA in changes in 1970s which ended “state activism in capitalism” and started the “moment of ‘globalization” • Global restructuring of capital has been accompanied by the “fragmentation” of classes of labour and intense struggles for survival and reproduction. • Petty commodity production, combining contradictory class positions of capital and labour, is prevalent and also contributes to this fragmentation • So does LR enable expanded petty commodity production or does it simply diversify the strategies of survival of these fragmented classes of labour?