Land Reform Policy in Post-Apartheid South Africa: The Elusive Quest for Social Justice?

2008 ◽  
pp. 165-180
Author(s):  
Brij Maharaj
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Land Reform ◽  
Reform Policy

scholarly journals Policy And Implementation: Land And Agrarian Reform In South Africa

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Jason Stratton Davis
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Land Reform ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Agrarian Reform ◽  
Developing Nations ◽  
Agriculture Sector ◽  
Ecological Citizenship

In developing nations, particularly in Africa, agrarian and land reform is part of economic development. The main reason is that no country sustained a transition out of poverty without raising productivity in its agriculture sector (Timmer, 2005). This article examines the process of balancing land and agrarian reform in the agricultural sector in South Africa, where the need for social justice has to be weighed against the potential loss of agricultural production. The process has been likened to balancing deck chairs on the Titanic (Davis, 1993). In addition, the article seeks to measure the level of success achieved since 1994 and to suggest ways forward, by drawing on Brazils experience, where the process has evolved to developing ecological citizenship and agro-ecological production.

Land as Home in South Africa: The Living and the Dead in Ritual Conversations

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 275-300
Author(s):  
Antonádia Borges
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Land Reform ◽  
Academic Work ◽  
Political Practice ◽  
Reform Policy ◽  
Departure Point ◽  
The Past ◽  
Kwazulu Natal ◽  
The Dead

Apartheid segregated not only the living, but also the dead. Taking a wedding ritual as its departure point, the article explores the conversations between the living and the dead taking place in a redistributed farm in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Conviviality between the living and the dead challenges the idea of pecuniary compensation as an adequate land reform policy insofar its beneficiary population expands to the infinite, including those now alive, the living who have already died, and those yet to be born. If these ritual conversations suggest that the past and future are experiential moments beyond what is lived today, it would appear our duty to devise alternatives to the linear, flat, and cumulative narratives that currently dominate our academic work and our political practice.

scholarly journals Land Reform in the Republic of South Africa: Social Justice or Populism?

Werkwinkel ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arkadiusz Żukowski
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
South African ◽  
Land Reform ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Free Market ◽  
African National Congress ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Democratic State ◽  
The Republic

Abstract In the paper land reform in South African political discourse will be investigated, especially the process of its politicization. How the topic of land reform is used by political forces, especially the ruling party; the African National Congress and current President Jacob Zuma. Does the Republic of South Africa take a populist turn on land reform or is it some kind of social justice after the suppression of the apartheid era and decades before? The political disputes and decisions will be analysed in confrontations with the fundamentals and values of a democratic state as a guarantee of property rights, private ownership and free market principles (dilemma of the problem of willing buyer - willing seller). It will be necessary to present the historical background of land problem in the RSA. The problem will be investigated in connection with the socio-economic situation of the RSA. The study will also tackle the problem of social and economic inequality from the perspective of politics. In the paper, a mix of primary and secondary research methods of data collection and analysing will be used. Theoretical framework will be based on assumptions of political discourse and the paradigm of “classic” land reform.

scholarly journals THE ANC’S LAND REFORM POLICY: AN UNSUSTAINABLE & UNSATISFACTORY COMPROMISE

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thorne A Godinho
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Land Reform ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
African National Congress ◽  
Reform Policy ◽  
Policy Document ◽  
Discussion Document ◽  
History Of ◽  
Policy Proposals

‘Tensions [in South Africa] continue, and conflicting interests and ideologies lead to more or less unsatisfactory compromises.’ Against the backdrop of these words by Frank Welsh in his seminal work on the history of South Africa, the debate surrounding land reform will be critically examined. The African National Congress (ANC) released its ‘Land Reform Policy Discussion Document’ (hereinafter referred to as the Policy Document) in June 2012. The Policy Document outlines the ruling party’s policy on the transformation of South Africa’s land ownership, stating that: ‘[l]and reform must represent a radical and rapid break from the past without significantly disrupting agricultural production and food security.’ This article aims to take a critical look at the rhetoric and policy proposals which surround the debate on land. Furthermore, the nature and effect of the proposed redress will be examined. Through an understanding of green economics and environmentalism, the effect of economic opportunity, and a critique of the ideological defects of the proposals, this article will seek to provide a sustainable solution in contrast to the constantly unsatisfactory compromises that saturate South African public discourse around these issues.

scholarly journals Towards Democratic Justice? Land Reform in South Africa

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-71
Author(s):  
Siobhan O'Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Land Reform ◽  
Human Freedom ◽  
The Poor

This article theoretically establishes the interconnections between justice and democracy, and empirically explores the case of land reform in South Africa in the light of these interconnections. Firstly, it argues that democracy must ensure the realisation of social justice in order to create the conditions for human freedom and a truly inclusive and legitimate democracy. Secondly, the article argues that justice must also be subject to democratisation, i.e. public participation and deliberation on what should be distributed, how and to whom, termed democratic justice. In South Africa, there are significant concerns about the lack of redistribution and the continued exclusion of the poor, meaning that democratic justice is some way from being achieved.

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