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    An analysis of livelihoods of land and agrarian reform beneficiaries: towards integrated and comprehensive post-settlement support programmes
    (University of the Western Cape, 2025) Mbekeni, Lubabalo; Carlese, Shernaaz
    The slow pace and poor post-settlement support regarding land and agrarian reform remain one of the key socio-economic challenges that plague post-apartheid South Africa. The aim of this qualitative case study was to analyse the livelihoods of beneficiaries of land and agrarian reform in a selected community on the Westcoast in the Western Cape, South Africa, and to develop guidelines for integrated and comprehensive post-settlement support programmes for the Western Cape. Utilising the Sustainable Livelihood Approach, the objectives were to: explore the vulnerability context of land reform beneficiaries in the selected community, explore their livelihood assets, identify and explore the policies, institutions and processes affecting their livelihood, explore and observe their livelihood strategies, explore and analyse their livelihood outcomes, and to develop guidelines for post-settlement support programmes that promote sustainable livelihoods of land and agrarian reform beneficiaries in the Western Cape. Permission to conduct the study was requested from the selected community leaders, the local municipality where the study was conducted and government institutions involved in land reform in the Western Cape. Ethics approval was obtained from the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Ethics Committee at UWC. The study population was beneficiaries of land and agrarian reform in a community on the Westcoast of the Western Cape, South Africa. Purposive sampling was used to conduct semi- structured focus group discussions with 10 beneficiaries and individual interviews with 18 stakeholders involved in land and agrarian reform in the Western Cape. Additionally, a transect walk was conducted and a workshop facilitated with 15 volunteers from the same sample sets, aimed at developing guidelines for integrated and comprehensive post-settlement support programmes for land and agrarian reform that promotes sustainable livelihoods of beneficiary communities in the Western Cape. Atlas Ti 8 was used to analyse the policy documents and thematic analysis was used to analyse the data from the interviews and focus group discussions. The findings were synthesized to facilitate a workshop discussion with volunteers from the same sample, who participated in the development of the guidelines. Data verification were ensured through credibility, transferability, reliability and dependability. The findings indicate that restoration of land rights is not merely access to land but should be accompanied with other development initiatives. As such comprehensive post-settlement support programmes should make provision for infrastructure development as well as skills development of land beneficiaries.