The year ahead promises to be a very difficult but also a very decisive year for South Africa. Is President Ramaphosa equal to the challenge?
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Land reform has always been closely tied to shifts in the wider political economy of countries.
Zimbabwe’s food insecurity is not just about food production, but access too. It is affected by, among others, the value of assets when sold and social and cultural dimensions that go into exchange.
It’s time for a new approach as it becomes increasingly clear that protests won’t topple the Zanu-PF government.
Colonialism and apartheid sought to make traditional leaders accountable to white officials by tying them to land.
South Africa’s rural communities where mining licenses have been granted are often excluded from consultations and bear the brunt having their environment and livelihoods destroyed.
The abandonment of crop farming fields isn’t new. But some researchers say it’s accelerated in the last two decades.
Ramaphosa offered five simple yet bold goals for the next ten years that cut across the social and economic structural constraints that inhibit South Africa’s potential.
Land reform programme has done very little to improve access to land for black South Africans.
The green revolution: small-scale, informal irrigation is expanding in Zimbabwe and small scale farmers are leading the way.
Villagers from a community in South Africa’s Eastern Cape fought to be consulted and for the power to consent to mining their land.
South Africa has made progress towards interrupting the looting of land by chiefs, state officials and mining capital.
The main reason land reform in South Africa has been lethargic is not the Constitution, but a flawed approach.
Ramaphosa’s stimulus package is more interesting for what it says about the politics of economic decision making than for its likely impact on the economy.
A survey shows that support for land reform in South Africa differs according to race.
Some South African land owners feel like the current debate portrays them as being opposed to reform rather than cooperative.
The US president’s comments about South Africa’s land reform stem from his view that whites are under attack from blacks.
South Africa’s ruling party, the ANC , is mishandling the process leading towards land expropriation without compensation.
It’s becoming increasingly difficult to take South Africa’s ruling party seriously when it talks about economic reform.
South Africans can’t afford to let the land debate be reduced to a shouting match.
Principales colaboradores
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Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies
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Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Emeritus Professor, Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape
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Director of the Bureau for Economic Research, Stellenbosch University
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Senior Fellow, Department of Agricultural Economics, Stellenbosch University
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Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Fort Hare
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Associate Professor of Sociology & Director of the Centre for Data Ethics at the Institute for Intelligent Systems, University of Johannesburg
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Research Director, North-West University
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Professor & Research Chair in Interdisciplinary Science in Land and Natural Resource Use for Sustainable Livelihoods, Rhodes University
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Emeritus Associate Professor in Public Law, University of Cape Town
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Post Doctoral Researcher, Graduate School of Business (GSB), University of Cape Town
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Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Lecturer in Law, University of Aberdeen
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Post-Doctoral Fellow, Rhodes University
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Senior Research Specialist, Innovations for Successful Societies, Princeton University
