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Creating learning and action space in South Africa’s post-apartheid land redistribution program
(SAGE Publications, 2017)
This paper uses the case of South Africa’s latest land redistribution strategy known as the Proactive Land Acquisition Strategy, to explore whether, and how, research can have direct and positive impacts on beneficiaries ...
Land redistribution in South Africa: Towards decolonisation or recolonisation?
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)
Contrary to populist political discourses, in South Africa the ruling party’s approach to land
policy is reproducing paternalistic relations that echo apartheid practices and represent the
’colonial present’. This reality ...
The distribution of land in South Africa: An overview
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2013)
Evictions from farms – the role of local government
(PLAAS, 2011-06)
Recently, land reform has gained greater prominence in public debates, notably with the latest call for the nationalisation of land, which has been met with mixed responses. The call highlights why the need for nationalisation ...
Land redistribution: Part of a wider agrarian reform strategy
(PLAAS, 2012-09)
An emerging and increasingly more prominent debate amid the considerations of a new White Paper, following the Green Paper process, which will set the legal framework for land reform and agrarian transformation, is whether ...
Elite capture and state neglect: new evidence on South Africa’s land reform
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
The most recent incarnation of South Africa’s land reform is a model
of state purchase of farms to be provided on leasehold, rather than
transferring title. This briefing presents headline findings from our
field research ...
How can we promote a range of livelihood opportunities through land redistribution?
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2019)
This position paper sketches an approach to improving land redistribution in South Africa in which the broad aim is to use redistribution to create a range of livelihood opportunities, in meaningful numbers, in proportion ...
Livelihoods after land reform in South Africa
(Wiley, 2013)
Over the past few decades, Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa have pursued redistributive land reform as a means to address rural poverty. The Livelihoods after Land Reform (LaLR) study was carried out between 2007 and ...
Principles and practice for successful farmland redistribution in South Africa
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2019)
The current debate on land reform in South Africa is unnecessarily polarised between those who believe that the market has failed to deliver, and those who believe that the bureaucracy has failed to deliver. Instead, we ...