The Land Question in South Africa

Lungisile Ntsebeza is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Cape Town and a chief research specialist in the democracy and governance research program of the Human Sciences Research Council. He is currently working on agrarian movements in South Africa. Ruth Hall is a researcher for the Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies at the University of the Western Cape-South Africa, where she is involved in research and policy engagement on land redistribution, land restitution, and farm-dweller tenure policy.

Regional context and theoretical considerations: Agrarian questions of capital and labour - some theory about land reform (and a periodisation); the land question in southern Africa - a comparative review. Perspectives on existing policy and new directions for the future; transforming rural South Africa? taking stock of land reform; land redistribution in South Africa: the property clause revisited; redistributive land reform - for what and for whom?; agricultural land redistribution in South Africa - towards accelerated implementation; struggling for a life in dignity; agrarian reform and the 'two economies' - transforming South Africa's countryside.