A critical appraisal of South Africa’s market-based land reform policy: The case of the Land Redistribution for Agricultural Development (LRAD) programme in Limpopo
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2004
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Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape
Abstract
In 1996 less than 1% of the population
owned and controlled over 80% of
farm land. This 1% was part of the
10.9% of the population classified as white
(Stats SA 2000). Meanwhile, the 76.7% of
the population that is classified as African
had access to less than 15% of agricultural
land, and even that access was without
clear ownership or legally-recognised
rights. An estimated 5.3 million black
South Africans lived with almost no tenure
security on commercial farms owned by
white farmers (Wildschut & Hulbert 1998).
The legacy of apartheid was not just the
inequality in access to resources such as
land, but a faltering economy that by 1994
had been through two years of negative
growth and left the majority of the
population in poverty (Sparks 2003).
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South Africa, Land reform policy, Colonisation, Apartheid, Land reform
Citation
Wegerif, M. (2004). A critical appraisal of South Africa’s market-based land reform policy: The case of the Land Redistribution for Agricultural Development (LRAD) programme in Limpopo. Research Report 19. Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape