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Resettlement and Land Reform in South Africa
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The authors provides a brief overview of the extent and the consequences of several different kinds of resettlement, and argues that land reform in a post-apartheid South Africa will require further resettlement and considers a number of possible settlement patterns, and some of the problems likely to arise.Abstract:
Since 1913, at least seven million South Africans, mainly Africans, have been uprooted or actively resettled for predominantly political purposes. This article provides a brief overview of the extent and the consequences of several different kinds of resettlement. It then argues that land reform in a post‐apartheid South Africa will require further resettlement, and considers a number of possible settlement patterns, as well as some of the problems likely to arise.read more
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Setting the agenda: a critique of the World Bank's rural restructuring programme for South Africa
Abstract: This article offers a critique of the presuppositions of the recommendations put forward in the World Bank's ‘Options for Land Reform and Rural Restructuring in South Africa’ 1993. It examines the documents which informed the proposals; the adequacy of their accounts of the experiences, notably of land reforms in Kenya, on which they draw; the strength of their evidence and arguments, particularly regarding agricultural performance and policies; and the feasibility and purposes of their proposals for land redistribution. It argues that the World Bank proposals rest on misleading intellectual foundations. The World Bank's analyses regarding the relative (in)efficiency of large‐scale farming in South Africa with respect to scale of production, factor productivity and prices are not supported by much of the evidence they cite. Their proposals revived aspects of the thinking behind the Swynnerton and Tomlinson reports of the 1950s. Government programmes to develop black farmers in South Africa in the late 198...
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Agricultural issues in the former homelands of South Africa: the Transkei
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The Dead Will Arise: Nongqawuse and the Great Xhosa Cattle-Killing Movement of 1856-7
TL;DR: The story of Nongqawuse, a young Xhosa woman whose prophecy in 1856 of the regeneration of the living and the resurrection of the dead caused 100,000 cattle, destroy their crops and slowly starve to death, is one of the most extraordinary in history, and has defied explanation over 130 years.
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Women and wages: gender and the control of income in farm and bantustan households
John S. Sharp,Andrew D. Spiegel +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a close comparison of two Bantustan areas in South Africa: the Matatiele district in the Transkei and Qwaqwa in the Orange Free State is presented.