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IT IS NOW WIDELY ACKNOWLEDGED that post-1994 land reform policies and programmes have been a miserable disappointment. They have failed to deliver tenure security to those whose land rights are at risk. They have failed to provide meaningful restitution to black South...
THE INGONYAMA TRUST WAS formed in 1994, just a day before the first democratic elections in South Africa. In terms of the founding legislation, all the land which had previously vested in the former ‘homeland’ of KwaZulu vested in a trust, the Ingonyama Trust, the...
Under apartheid WHITE FARMERS WERE ONE OF the mainstays of the apartheid ruling bloc. They received substantial state support and protection over many decades. Farmers were organised into cooperatives with monopoly control over specific commodities. They supplied to...
COLONIALISM, APARTHEID AND neoliberalism remain foundational in shaping the inherited dualistic, unequal and racially divided land and agrarian structure. And we still have that same structure some 29 years into South Africa’s democratic dispensation. At the heart of...
Amandla! interviewed Norah Mlondobozi, a member of Mopani Farmers Association and the Rural Women's Assembly in Limpopo. Norah Mlondobozi: I am a farmer around Mopani in Limpopo. We are doing cash crops. We are doing vegetables. And then we also have free-range...
Interview with Mosa Phadi, an activist scholar and member of Keep Left Amandla!: Is there a crisis of politics? what’s your understanding of it and its nature in South Africa? MOSA PHADI: It’s been ongoing in different ways since 1994. I think the biggest betrayal...
IN JULY, AMANDLA! BROUGHT TOGETHER A GROUP OF YOUNG, SOCIALIST ACTIVISTS TO DISCUSS THE CRISIS OF POLITICS IN AN OPEN-ENDED ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION. We chose this format because we wanted to dig deeper than usually happens in a public panel situation. We wanted a more...