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Land reform in South Africa : the issues and challenges - ideology, politics and post-settlement support services

Thesis (PhD (Development Studies))--University of Pretoria, 2022.

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spelling oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/81251 Land reform in South Africa : the issues and challenges - ideology, politics and post-settlement support services Moon, Sihle mfunewisdom@yahoo.com Thebe, Vusilizwe Mfune, Wisdom UCTD Land reform Inequality Apartheid Colonialism Marxism Capitalism Commercial farming RDP Globalisation Neoliberalism Free markets Poverty Unemployment Agriculture Traditional authority Agrarian change South Africa Zimbabwe Expropriation without compensation Development infrastructure Socio-economic development Rentier-financier states South Korea Taiwan Corruption Power dynamics Elite capture Participation GDP Nelson Mandela ANC Thesis (PhD (Development Studies))--University of Pretoria, 2022. This thesis is about land reforms in South Africa. In particular, the study investigates the issues and challenges facing the land reform programme in South Africa. The research assesses the ideological assumptions underlying the current approach to land redistribution, and the free-market approach to land reform, which is based on the ‘willing buyer, willing seller’ principle. The Constitution, Section 25 provides for a far-reaching land reform programme. Section 25(5) states, “The state must take reasonable legislative and other measures, within its available resources, to foster conditions which enable citizens to gain access to land on an equitable basis.” Section 25(6) states, “A person or community whose tenure of land is legally insecure as a result of past racially discriminatory laws or practices, is entitled, to the extent provided by an Act of Parliament, either to tenure, which is legally secure or to comparable redress”. Section 25(7) states, “A person or community dispossessed of property after 19 June 1913 as a result of past racially discriminatory laws or practices is entitled, to the extent provided by an Act of Parliament, either to restitution of that property or to equitable redress”. This thesis discusses the policy-making process and how certain policies (neo-liberal economic policies) were favoured. The research study adopts a qualitative approach to research and uses a documentary analysis approach to research to analyse and describe the land reform process and programmes. The method shows that land reform has been slow and inefficient, because the current approach, market-based land reform, has led to inflation of prices on the market. Given that land reform has not delivered on the desired development outcomes, I use international experiences as a comparison to understand how other countries carried out their land reform processes. The document-data triangulation technique employed in the data analysis reveals that although the market-led approach has been supported on economic terms, accompanied with the right legislations, programmes and support services, the major issues and challenges facing land reform go beyond legislations, programmes and delivery methods, to three key categorical areas, namely: Ideology, Politics and Post-settlement support services. The study finds that the unresolved themes in these three areas have proved to be the major obstacles, impacting on the pace and performance of land reform. Anthropology and Archaeology PhD (Development Studies) Unrestricted 2021-08-13T06:36:04Z 2021-08-13T06:36:04Z 2021-09 2022 Thesis * S2021 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/81251 en © 2019 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria
spellingShingle UCTD
Land reform
Inequality
Apartheid
Colonialism
Marxism
Capitalism
Commercial farming
RDP
Globalisation
Neoliberalism
Free markets
Poverty
Unemployment
Agriculture
Traditional authority
Agrarian change
South Africa
Zimbabwe
Expropriation without compensation
Development infrastructure
Socio-economic development
Rentier-financier states
South Korea
Taiwan
Corruption
Power dynamics
Elite capture
Participation
GDP
Nelson Mandela
ANC
Land reform in South Africa : the issues and challenges - ideology, politics and post-settlement support services
title Land reform in South Africa : the issues and challenges - ideology, politics and post-settlement support services
title_full Land reform in South Africa : the issues and challenges - ideology, politics and post-settlement support services
title_fullStr Land reform in South Africa : the issues and challenges - ideology, politics and post-settlement support services
title_full_unstemmed Land reform in South Africa : the issues and challenges - ideology, politics and post-settlement support services
title_short Land reform in South Africa : the issues and challenges - ideology, politics and post-settlement support services
title_sort land reform in south africa the issues and challenges ideology politics and post settlement support services
topic UCTD
Land reform
Inequality
Apartheid
Colonialism
Marxism
Capitalism
Commercial farming
RDP
Globalisation
Neoliberalism
Free markets
Poverty
Unemployment
Agriculture
Traditional authority
Agrarian change
South Africa
Zimbabwe
Expropriation without compensation
Development infrastructure
Socio-economic development
Rentier-financier states
South Korea
Taiwan
Corruption
Power dynamics
Elite capture
Participation
GDP
Nelson Mandela
ANC
url http://hdl.handle.net/2263/81251