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Accepted Paper:
Market-based land reform and neo-liberal ANC rule deepen underdevelopment and capitalist accummulation
Mazibuko Jara
(Pathways Institute)
Paper short abstract:
I analyse the contradiction between post-apartheid South Africa’s neo-liberal land reform & agricultural policies, & redistribution, & how this reproduces underdevelopment & a bifurcated state in former Bantustans based on state-private-chieftaincy axis.
Paper long abstract:
Market-based land reform and neo-liberal ANC rule reproduce underdevelopment
From colonial and apartheid era policies, post-apartheid South Africa inherited a dualistic, unequal and racially divided land ownership patterns and agrarian structure. Racist land and agricultural laws and policies prevented the development of black agriculture and ultimately led to its systematic reduction into survivalist subsistence. The past policies saw massive state subsidisation and support of white-controlled, commercialised, and capital intensive agriculture.
The paper will show that there is a glaring contradiction between the neo-liberal deregulation and liberalisation logic of post-apartheid land reform and agricultural policies, and the post-apartheid government’s rhetorical commitment to equity, redistribution and improved livelihoods. The paper will also demonstrate how market-based land reform intersects with the reproduction of underdevelopment and a bifurcated state in the rural areas of the former apartheid Bantustans underpinned by collusion between the state, private capital and the tribal chiefly elite.
The paper will conclude with resistance and struggles for an alternative emerging in the rural sector, in response to the impact of the contradictions noted above.
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Accepted Paper:
Mazibuko Jara (Pathways Institute)
Paper short abstract:
Paper long abstract:
Market-based land reform and neo-liberal ANC rule reproduce underdevelopment
From colonial and apartheid era policies, post-apartheid South Africa inherited a dualistic, unequal and racially divided land ownership patterns and agrarian structure. Racist land and agricultural laws and policies prevented the development of black agriculture and ultimately led to its systematic reduction into survivalist subsistence. The past policies saw massive state subsidisation and support of white-controlled, commercialised, and capital intensive agriculture.
The paper will show that there is a glaring contradiction between the neo-liberal deregulation and liberalisation logic of post-apartheid land reform and agricultural policies, and the post-apartheid government’s rhetorical commitment to equity, redistribution and improved livelihoods. The paper will also demonstrate how market-based land reform intersects with the reproduction of underdevelopment and a bifurcated state in the rural areas of the former apartheid Bantustans underpinned by collusion between the state, private capital and the tribal chiefly elite.
The paper will conclude with resistance and struggles for an alternative emerging in the rural sector, in response to the impact of the contradictions noted above.
Counter agrarian reform in the Global South: dynamics of accumulation and change
Session 1 Thursday 7 July, 2022, -