A5086949283- Land Rights and Reforms
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Legal Issues in South Africa
- Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- African studies and sociopolitical issues
- Labor Movements and Unions
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Rural development and sustainability
- Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- African history and culture studies
- South African History and Culture
Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies
2014-2024
University of the Western Cape
2018-2024
Umkhuseli Innovation and Research Management
2022
Marxist agrarian political economy has focused largely on the problematic of accumulation and its politics, but dynamics social reproduction in rural contexts remain somewhat under-theorised. These are explored through consideration empirical evidence from communal areas land reform farms South Africa. Key arguments advanced that such include distinctive forms marriage, systems kinship community membership, as well property relations not characterised by private ownership. Much occurs...
Land redistribution policy in South Africa emphasises commercial farming as the legitimate use of land. This production-oriented framework fails to take into account intertwined but unstable relationship between production market value and social reproduction, how this shapes differentiation. Drawing on a case study Besters Reform Project province KwaZulu-Natal, paper shows that land cattle are not simply moments beef material discursive resources (re)making conditions household. Cattle used...
The paper investigates whether farm dwellers in the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) province of South Africa are subject to a “double exposure”: vulnerable both impacts post-apartheid agrarian dynamics and risks climate change. evidence is drawn from 2017 survey that was undertaken by Association for Rural Advancement (AFRA), which land rights Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), 843 dweller households. Data on current living conditions livelihoods collected 15.3% population area. demonstrates...
Abstract The paper explores how beneficiaries of South Africa's land reform programme attempt to navigate the contradictory dynamics production and social reproduction in collectively owned agricultural enterprises. Mphuzanyoni Communal Property Association KwaZulu‐Natal province farms with commercial beef herds Mayime Cooperative Eastern Cape is engaged a joint venture dairy farming scheme partnership an agribusiness firm. Severe tensions are evident between households requirements simple...
This article reviews the literature on social dynamics influencing small-scale agriculture in South Africa. These include three primary factors: trans-local character of livelihoods; role hierarchies gender, age and marital status allocating rights responsibilities at home; ceremonial economy. African land reform policies must recognise these local practices distribution reproduction as integral to people's livelihood strategies. By doing so, can move beyond narrow emphasis productivity...