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    Apartheid space and fractured power: Vicious cycles of poverty in Cornfields, KwaZulu-Natal
    (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2010) Del Grande, Lisa; Hornby, Donna
    Apartheid space and fractured power: vicious cycles of poverty in Cornfields, KwaZulu-Natal A neglected area in the literature on structural poverty is changing land tenure relations and the disconnect with planning frameworks, which lock particular areas into ‘vicious’ cycles of poverty. These areas include some tribal authority, “black freehold” and land reform areas. In this paper, we focus on the case study of Cornfields, a black freehold area and an early land reform project. We argue that under apartheid black freehold areas became ‘special purpose places’, which, while facing forced removals, played the role of re-incorporating ‘surplus people’, and in the process created bases for localized authority that were not derived exclusively from either formal or tribal property systems. Land reform and the introduction of developmental local government further multiplied the sources of localized power, increasing conflict and eroding the community’s ability to act collectively to access national development plans, thus consolidating trajectories into deeper poverty.
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    Dynamics of social differentiation after land reform among former labour tenants in Besters, KwaZulu-Natal
    (2012) Hornby, Donna
    • 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?