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ABSTRACT
The study of the impact of liberalisation on South African agriculture has not been fully extended into the former homelands. It is possible to explore the effects of liberalisation in these areas, by considering state agricultural development projects set up during apartheid and investigating these high-value fruit exporting smallholders competing in the global market. This highlights the impact of the globalisation of food that has affected South Africa at very local levels. This is occurring in the framework of the imminent economic collapse of homeland parastatal s due to the demise of state investment and of apartheid ‘development’ funding, it is also relevant in the current policy environment to debate the contributions to land reform and the creation a class of ‘emerging’ commercial farmers in the homeland areas, that these parastatals may have had and may have in the future. It is also interesting to consider the options these state farms will face in a further liberalising environment, in terms of how they might be restructured and transformed.