Towards a reorientation in land reform: From a market to locality-driven approach in South Africa’s land restitution programmeB. Ikubolajeh Logan, George Tengbeh and Brilliant Petja Progress in Development Studies, 2012, vol. 12, issue 2-3, 173-191 Abstract: Despite general agreement that land reform can be a catalyst for positive rural change in sub-Saharan Africa, the means towards this end are frequently coloured in ideological hues, which manifest themselves in confounding binaries like racial justice/environmental justice, market/state and equity/efficiency. The fractures surrounding sub-Saharan land reform are most obvious in the south, where the land question traces its roots to racially motivated colonial policies. The South African government, like others in the region, is attempting to combat landlessness through market-led land reform. This article assesses the implementation of the country’s Land Restitution Programme in the Polokwane district. Its main argument is that the modernist mega-narratives, which inform the programme, create a disconnect between the state and the landless. To address this problem, the article proposes a reorientation in which local narratives will replace theoretical mega-narratives at the centre of land reform programmes. Keywords: South Africa; land reform; land restitution; mega-narratives; local historical narratives (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:prodev:v:12:y:2012:i:2-3:p:173-191 DOI: 10.1177/146499341101200306 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Progress in Development Studies |
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