Browsing by Author "Manenzhe, Tshililo"

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    Joint ventures in agriculture: Lessons from land reform projects in South Africa
    (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2012) Lahiff, Edward; Davis, Nerhene; Manenzhe, Tshililo
    Recent years have witnessed renewed interest in ‘inclusive business models’ in agriculture, as part of wider discussions about growing agricultural investment in lower income countries. Inclusive models aim to include poor people into value chains as producers, employees or consumers, in ways that are both equitable and sustainable. Joint ventures between companies and local communities have received considerable attention in these debates. This report presents findings from research on joint ventures in South Africa’s agricultural sector. The South African experience presents major specificities linked to its history and its recent land reform programme, within which experience with joint ventures has emerged. But it also provides a case where joint ventures have been implemented for some time, and some of the lessons learned may prove valuable for different contexts where discussions about joint ventures are more recent. Under South Africa’s land reform programme, since 1994, previously dispossessed communities have had large areas of agricultural land restored to them and, under pressure from the state, have entered into a range of joint enterprises with commercial partners. Early evidence suggests that these enterprises face multiple difficulties, and the report provides a cautionary tale for international discussions about inclusive business models. This report is based on two case studies of land reform in Limpopo province, Levubu and Moletele. In these sites, large areas of high-value irrigated land have been restored to relatively poor communities. In order to maintain the productivity of commercial farming enterprises, and to maximise long-term benefits for their members, these communities have entered into contractual arrangements with socalled ‘strategic partners’, most of which take the form of joint ventures. While the state funds the land transfer and provides certain start-up grants, the strategic partner is expected to provide technical and managerial expertise and arrange access to commercial sources of credit. In return, the strategic partners expect to benefit from a share of profits, a management fee and opportunities for additional upstream and downstream activities. Communities stand to benefit from land rentals and a share of operating profits, as well as jobs and training opportunities for their members
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    Joint ventures in agriculture: Lessons from land reform projects in South Africa
    (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2012) Lahiff, Edward; Davis, Nerhene; Manenzhe, Tshililo
    This report presents findings from research on joint ventures in South Africa’s agricultural sector. The South African experience presents major specificities linked to its history and its recent land reform programme, within which experience with joint ventures has emerged. In contrast to other parts of the world, South Africa provides an example of communities that, as the result of a political transformation, have come into possession of large, valuable agricultural assets, to which they have secured freehold title but often lack the necessary management and financial resources, and are therefore in need of commercial partners. The commercial partners that have linked up with such communities are also atypical in that many are relatively small in scale and some are former owners of the land in question. In the partnerships, local communities are thrust into collective participation in new and complex enterprises, rather than building on familiar household-based activities. And the driving force behind the new ventures is the state, through policy, brokering and the provision of
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    Land redistribution and poverty reduction in South Africa: The livelihood impacts of smallholder agriculture under land reform
    (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2007) Lahiff, Edward; Maluleke, Themba; Manenzhe, Tshililo; Wegerif, Marc
    Since its inception in 1994, South Africa’s land reform programme has aimed to achieve multiple objectives, including redressing the historical racial imbalance in landholding, alleviating poverty and developing the rural economy. A range of policies has been developed to deal with restitution of historical land rights, redistribution of agricultural land and protection of the rights of people living in communal areas and on commercial farms. Delivery, however, has been painfully slow, with all key policy areas falling far behind their stated targets (DLA 1997; Hall 2004).
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    Restitution and post-settlement support: Three case studies from Limpopo
    (PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2007-08) Manenzhe, Tshililo; Lahiff, Edward
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    Restitution and post-settlement support: Three case studies from Limpopo
    (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2007) Manenzhe, Tshililo; Lahiff, Edward
    This study examines the experience of land reform beneficiaries after land acquisition in three communal property associations (CPAs) in Limpopo province, namely Munzhedzi, Ximange and Mavungeni CPAs. In all three cases, communities were awarded land through land restitution, but Mavungeni also includes a portion of land acquired under the Settlement and Land Acquisition Grant (SLAG) (redistribution) programme. The identified CPAs are located in the same geographical area, under Makhado Local Municipality and Vhembe District Municipality, in the north-eastern part of Limpopo (see Map 1). All three restitution claims were facilitated as a cluster that were officially settled in March 2002. These communities, or parts of them, have been on the land since then, using it for a range of initiatives such as residence, cattle farming, dry-land cropping, irrigation, poultry and pig farming. These communities are made up of two main ethnic groups, Tshivenda-speakers and Xitsonga-speakers. The majority of the people concerned are poor and unemployed.