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Municipal Case Study: Inkosi Langalibalele Local Municipality KwaZulu – Natal
(2020-03-31)
This report presents a case study of Inkosi Local Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal. The goal of the report is to examine the employment creation potential of land redistribution in Inkosi Langalibalele, and its cost.
The ...
Land and agrarian reform in South Africa: A status report, 2002
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2002)
In 1994, South Africa started a new life as a democratic nation. It
faced immense challenges. Multiple economic, social and political
transformations were needed to overcome the legacy of colonialism and
apartheid. The ...
Submission to the Constitutional Review Committee
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2018)
The Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) is a constituent unit of the School of Government at the University of the Western Cape which was established in 1995. PLAAS engages in research, training, policy ...
Comments on the Green Paper on land reform 2011
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2011)
As we have indicated in our earlier press release, the document released as a Green Paper by the
Department Ministry of Rural Development and Land Reform is a great disappointment.
The Green Paper is the product of a ...
Reforming communal land tenure in South Africa – Why land titling is not the answer
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2002)
The long-awaited draft Communal Land Rights Bill sets out government’s proposals to
resolve urgent land tenure problems in the former ‘homeland’ areas, where most rural
South Africans still live, and where land is ...
Rights without illusions: The potential and limits of rights-based approaches to securing land tenure in rural South Africa
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2011-05)
Summarising the trajectory of tenure policy and law making from 1994 through to the present, the paper shows how discourses of rights, citizenship and democracy shape policies and legislation. We assess the policies and ...
Contested paradigms of ‘viability’ in redistributive land reform: perspectives from southern Africa
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2009-06)
‘Viability’ is a key term in debates about land reform in southern African and beyond, and is used in relation to both individual projects and programmes. ‘Viability’ connotes ‘successful’ and ‘sustainable’ - but what is ...
What is a ‘smallholder’? Class-analytic perspectives on small-scale farming and agrarian reform in South Africa
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2009)
It is often argued that the primary beneficiaries of land reform in South Africa should be ‘the rural poor’ and ‘smallholders’, rather than ‘emerging commercial farmers’. The term ‘smallholder’ is problematic, however, ...
Strategies to support South African smallholders as a contribution to government’s second economy strategy: Volume 1: Situation analysis, fieldwork findings and main conclusions
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2010)
Within the ambit of the Accelerated and Shared
Growth Initiative of South Africa, government is
leading a process to define a Second Economy
Strategy. One of the opportunities that has been
identified is the agricultural ...
Challenging the stereotypes: Small-scale black farmers and private sector support programmes in South Africa
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2016)
This report represents one of the outputs of
a research and social dialogue project undertaken
over 18 months. It was carried out by
researchers from the Institute for Poverty,
Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), based ...