Liberalizing markets and reforming land in South Africa

Williams, Gavin; Ewert, Joachim; Hamann, Johann; Vink, Nick

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“…The KWV was given nearly absolute control over the wine industry, creating an export monopoly (Williams, Ewart, Hamman, & Vink, 1998). Over time, the KWV tightened their grip on South Africa's liquor industry, eventually regulating growth, manufacture and distribution of all wines and spirits (Williams et al, 1998). The strict monopolistic regulations that developed in the South African wine industry kept wine production at levels well below what was economically feasible (Maykuth, 1997).…”

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“…This act granted legal control over the South African wine industry to the Ko-operatieve Wijnbouwers Vereniging van Zuid-Afrika Beperkt ('KWV'), a co-operative composed primarily of Afrikaans winemakers and grape cultivators in the Western Cape. The KWV was given nearly absolute control over the wine industry, creating an export monopoly (Williams, Ewart, Hamman, & Vink, 1998). Over time, the KWV tightened their grip on South Africa's liquor industry, eventually regulating growth, manufacture and distribution of all wines and spirits (Williams et al, 1998).…”

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“…The elimination of government subsidies and the termination of the statecontrolled Wheat Board in 1990 significantly impacted South Africa's wheat industry, while the decommissioning of the KWV's production quota system in 1992, and its subsequent privatization in 1997, forever transformed South Africa's wine industry. Suddenly exposed to an entirely new set of economic conditions, the agricultural industry of South Africa experienced extensive transformations in the 1990s (Williams et al, 1998).…”

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Fifty years of land use change in the Swartland, Western Cape, South Africa: characteristics, causes and consequences

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2013

South African Geographical Journal

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Meadows

2013

South African Geographical Journal

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“…Most analysts were, and continue to be, concerned with what the outcome of a constitutionally sanctioned land reform in South Africa would be (Christopher 1995; Cousins 2000; Lahiff 2003). Levin & Weiner (1997) and Williams et al . (1998) expressed the view that land reform in post‐apartheid South Africa will result in the enlargement of former bantustans (homelands), and that it will give black people marginal land.…”

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The Geographical Imprint of Land Restitution With Reference to Limpopo Province, South Africa

Ramutsindela¹

2007

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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This paper analyses the geographical imprint of land restitution against earlier views that land reform in South Africa will result in the enlargement of former bantustans (homelands), and that it will give black people marginal land. Those views, and their underlying assumptions not only suggest that it would be difficult to dismantle apartheid geography, but also imply that land reform has the potential to reinforce that geography. This begs the question of the manner in which South Africa's land reform programme might contribute to the consolidation of the spatial legacy of apartheid. In this paper Limpopo Province is referred to to conclude that the government's approach to land restitution, together with the pattern and resolution of land claims, largely account for the emerging spatial consolidation of the geography of the former bantustans. It also demonstrates that the resolution of land claims has moved from 'a case-by-case' to 'a policy-oriented' approach between 1994 and 2004. Copyright (c) 2007 by the Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG.

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“…Statements in the press by Ministers and Members of Parliament about the need to speed up land reform (Stoddard 2016) require white farmers to legitimize and assert their position on the land. However, subsequent ANC governments have also promoted neoliberal policies, which have resulted in further deregulation and land consolidation (Van Zyl et al 1996, Williams et al 1998) rather than redistribution of land, resulting in a decline in the number of jobs on commercial farms (Vink and Van Rooyen 2009). In addition, there is a notable tendency to replace permanent workers by casual labor (Hall 2007, Aliber et al 2009, Spierenburg and Brooks 2014.…”

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Power and politics in stakeholder engagement: farm dweller (in)visibility and conversions to game farming in South Africa

Brandt¹,

Josefsson²,

Spierenburg³

2018

E&S

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ABSTRACT. Here, we discuss tensions inherent in multistakeholder approaches addressing conflicts over natural resources as well as the involvement of stakeholders in research. Our discussion is built on knowledge generated by extensive research on the impacts of private farm conversions to game farms in South Africa, where significant increases in farm conversions have been observed since the 1990s. The studies had a particular focus on the consequences for farm dwellers, one of the most marginalized groups in the South African countryside. The research findings challenge the dominant narrative that game farming offers a win-win situation for nature conservation and rural development. Based on data from the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal provinces, we extended the narrow technical and economic framing of the narrative to include the socio-political meanings of the conversions. We reflect on a series of multistakeholder workshops that we organized, partly as a requirement of the funding agency. The workshop aims were to disseminate our research findings among the stakeholder groups and explore ways to mitigate the negative impacts of conversions. We discuss how we organized the engagement process in ways that sought to address the power differences between game farmers, the State, and farm dwellers. The main challenge appeared to be that farm dwellers were not recognized as stakeholders. This "invisibility" has multiple reasons, in particular, the historical and current trajectories of land dispossession. It is also linked to specific institutional and personal relations in the two provinces, resulting in different uses of the workshop spaces. By considering the complexities of stakeholder relations in the farm conversion context, we gained a deeper understanding of the politics of land and belonging in the still unequal postapartheid rural landscape. Based on experiences from the research as well as the workshops, we take a critical stance regarding mainstream notions of stakeholder engagement and resilience building. We argue that if we fail to consider power relations and politics explicitly in these processes, we risk neglecting important conflicts and reproducing the invisibility of marginalized stakeholders.

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Liberalizing markets and reforming land in South Africa

Cited by 23 publications

References 18 publications

Fifty years of land use change in the Swartland, Western Cape, South Africa: characteristics, causes and consequences

Fifty years of land use change in the Swartland, Western Cape, South Africa: characteristics, causes and consequences

The Geographical Imprint of Land Restitution With Reference to Limpopo Province, South Africa

Power and politics in stakeholder engagement: farm dweller (in)visibility and conversions to game farming in South Africa

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