In the Shadow of Policy. Robert Ross

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      IN THE

       SHADOW

      OF POLICY

      IN THE

       SHADOW

      OF POLICY

       EVERYDAY PRACTICES IN SOUTH AFRICAN LAND AND AGRARIAN REFORM

       EDITED BY

       Paul Hebinck & Ben Cousins

      Wits University Press

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      South Africa

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      Published edition copyright © Wits University Press 2013

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      Chapter copyright © Individual contributors 2013

      First published 2013

      ISBN 978-1-77614-294-1 (EPUB)

      ISBN 978-1-77614-295-8 (MOBI)

      ISBN 978-1-86814-745-8 (print)

      ISBN 978-1-86814-746-5 (digital)

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      Project managed by Inga Norenius

      Edited by Inga Norenius

      Proofread by Lisa Compton

      Index by Tina Mössmer

      Cover design by Peter Bosman

      Layout and DTP artwork by Robin Yule

      Printed and bound by Creda Communications

      Contents

       Tables and figures

       Acknowledgements

       Acronyms and abbreviations

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

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

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

       Paul Hebinck

       2 Land and agrarian reform policies from a historical perspective

       Paul Hebinck

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

       Ben Cousins

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

       4 Consultants, business plans and land reform practices

       Francois Marais

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

       Yves van Leynseele

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

       Modise Moseki

       7 Property rights and land reform in the Western Cape

       Harriët Tienstra and Dik Roth

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

       Limpho Taoana

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

       Malebogo Phetlhu

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

       Petunia Khutswane

       11 Land compensation in the upper Kat River valley

       Robert Ross

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

       Rosalie Kingwill

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

       Karin Kleinbooi

       Part 3 Competing knowledge regimes in communal area agriculture

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

       Paul Hebinck and Wim van Averbeke

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

       Klara Jacobson

       16 The Massive Food Production Programme: does it work?

       Zamile Madyibi

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

       Henning de Klerk

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

       Derick