Whither agrarian reform in South Africa?

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Acknowledgements

Constructive feedback from Gary Littlejohn, Mary Ralphs, Stephen Heyns and an anonymous referee helped to improve this article and is gratefully acknowledged. In case of any remaining errors, the usual disclaimers apply.

Notes

I do not interrogate the questionable perspective that South Africa's contemporary agrarian question is reducible to the transition to capitalism, except that ‘the dispossessed’ rather than ‘capital’ must now spearhead and complete this transition (Cousins 2007).

See ‘Minister grabs Gauteng farm from reform beneficiary’, Business Day, 9 April 2009; ‘New farmers lose land’, City Press, 2 August 2009.

Under South African law, a president may serve a maximum of two five-year terms.