A Critical Appraisal of South Africa's Market-based Land Reform Policy: The Case of the Land Redistribution for Agricultural Development (LRAD) Programme in Limpopo
Year: 2004
Type: other
Abstract: In 1996 less than 1% of the population \nowned and controlled over 80% of \nfarm land. This 1% was part of the \n10.9% of the population classified as white \n(Stats SA 2000). Meanwhile, the 76.7% of \nthe population that is classified as African \nhad access to less than 15% of agricultural \nland, and even that access was without \nclear ownership or legally-recognised \nrights. An estimated 5.3 million black \nSouth Africans lived with almost no tenure \nsecurity on commercial farms owned by \nwhite farmers (Wildschut & Hulbert 1998). \nThe legacy of apartheid was not just the \ninequality in access to resources such as \nland, but a faltering economy that by 1994 \nhad been through two years of negative \ngrowth and left the majority of the \npopulation in poverty (Sparks 2003).
Author: Marc Wegerif
Institution: University of the Western Cape
Language: English
Topic: Land Rights and Reforms
Subfield: Soil Science
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2291798402