Another countryside? Policy options for land and agrarian reform in South Africa

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dc.contributor.authorAliber, Michael
dc.contributor.authorAndrews, Mercia
dc.contributor.authorBaiphethi, Mompati
dc.contributor.authorCliffe, Lionel
dc.contributor.authorHall, Ruth
dc.contributor.authorJacobs, Peter
dc.contributor.authorJara, Mazibuko
dc.contributor.authorKleinbooi, Karin
dc.contributor.authorLahiff, Edward
dc.contributor.authorZamchiya, Phillan
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-20T12:05:04Z
dc.date.available2019-03-20T12:05:04Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.description.abstractLand reform in South Africa is a political project that has foundered. For years, the process has been variously described as being ‘in crisis’, ‘at a crossroads’, ‘at an impasse’ or simply ’stuck’. This still seems as true as ever, as political pressure is mounting to find new solutions to old problems. In recent years, the issue of ‘delivery’, and how to speed it up, has taken centre stage and become a justificatory framework for arguments about how to reconfigure roles of the state and private sector in land reform. In the process, little attention has been given to the relationship between policy change and mobilisation from below. In the absence of sustained and organised pressure from rural people themselves, it appears that the shifts underway in land reform policy are not so much about ‘delivery’ as about reframing the entire project. Increasingly, the debates on land reform centre not so much on the mechanisms to be used, as on the vision that is to be pursued – something about which existing policy is remarkably silent. At stake is nothing less than what, and whom, land reform is for. South Africans are deeply divided on this question.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAliber, Michael. et al. (2009). Another countryside? Policy options for land and agrarian reform in South Africa. Cape Town: Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) University of the Western Cape.en_US
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-620-43744-8
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/4572
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherInstitute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Capeen_US
dc.subjectLand reformen_US
dc.subjectAgrarian reformen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.subjectSocial justiceen_US
dc.subjectGender equalityen_US
dc.titleAnother countryside? Policy options for land and agrarian reform in South Africaen_US
dc.typeBooken_US

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