Contents

pp v-vi

Tables and figures

pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements

pp ix-ix

Acronyms and abbreviations

pp x-xi

Map of the Cape provinces showing the location of the case studies

pp xii-xii

Part 1 - Setting the scene: land and agrarian reform in postapartheid South Africa

pp 1-2

1 - Post-apartheid land and agrarian reform policy and practices in South Africa: themes, processes and issues

pp 3-28

2 - Land and agrarian reform policies from a historical perspective

pp 29-46

3 - Land reform and agriculture uncoupled: the political economy of rural reform in post-apartheid South Africa

pp 47-62

Part 2 - ‘Mind the gap’: discrepancies between policies and practices in South African land reform

pp 63-64

4 - Consultants, business plans and land reform practices

pp 65-76

5 - ‘Seeing like a land reform agency’: cultural politics and the contestation of community farming at Makhoba

pp 77-90

6 - Land reform and newly emerging social relations on Gallawater A farm

pp 91-102

7 - Property rights and land reform in the Western Cape

pp 103-114

8 - ‘Rent a crowd’ land reform at Survive and Dikgoho land reform projects

pp 115-126

9 - Locating policies in the daily practices of land reform beneficiaries: the Mighty and Wales land reform farms

pp 127-136

10 - Where are the youth in land reform? The Vuki case

pp 137-148

11 - Land compensation in the upper Kat River valley

pp 149-158

12 - In the shadows of the cadastre: family law and custom in Rabula and Fingo Village

pp 159-172

13 - Land reform, tradition and securing land for women in Namaqualand

pp 173-186

Part 3 - Competing knowledge regimes in communal area agriculture

pp 187-188

14 - What constitutes ‘the agrarian’ in rural Eastern Cape African settlements?

pp 189-204

15 - The Massive Food Production Programme: a case study of agricultural policy continuities and changes

pp 205-216

16 - The Massive Food Production Programme: does it work?

pp 217-230

17 - ‘Still feeding ourselves’: everyday practices of the Siyazondla Homestead Food Production Programme

pp 231-246

18 - Cultivators in action, Siyazondla inaction? Trends and potentials in homestead cultivation

pp 247-262

19 - Smallholder irrigation schemes as an agrarian development option for the Cape region

pp 263-280

20 - Cattle and rural development in the Eastern Cape: the Nguni project revisited

pp 281-294

About the authors

pp 295-296