“Reproducing the social”: contradictory interconnections between land, cattle production and household relations in the Besters Land Reform Project, South Africa

Hornby, Donna; Cousins, Ben

doi:10.1080/23323256.2019.1653206

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“…communal entities such as community-based organisations (CBOs) and trusts. Referring to doctoral research by Donna Hornby (2014), the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) described what appears to be a 'successful redistribution project at Besters in KwaZulu-Natal, where 21% of the district's commercial farmland, along with tractors and beef cattle herds, have been redistributed to 13 Communal Property Associations made up of 170 former labour tenant and farm worker households' (Hornby, 2014, cited in PLAAS, 2016. Yet still, the rate of delivery in land reform is far from satisfactory.…”

Section: Land As Primary Site Of Contestationmentioning

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Land Reform Opportunities Meet Democratic Challenges in Traditional Areas

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2024

Beyond Expropriation Without Compensation

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Land Reform Opportunities Meet Democratic Challenges in Traditional Areas

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2024

Beyond Expropriation Without Compensation

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“…Of course, individual land ownership is not the only consequential category of private ownership, since some land is also owned by communal entities such as community-based organisations (CBOs) and trusts. Referring to doctoral research by Donna Hornby (2014), the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) described what appears to be a 'successful redistribution project at Besters in KwaZulu-Natal, where 21% of the district's commercial farmland, along with tractors and beef cattle herds, have been redistributed to 13 Communal Property Associations made up of 170 former labour tenant and farm worker households' (Hornby, 2014, cited in PLAAS, 2016. Yet still, the rate of delivery in land reform is far from satisfactory.…”

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Beyond Expropriation Without Compensation

2024

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Speeding up land reform through a constitutional amendment that would explicitly permit the expropriation of land without compensation has dominated legal and political-policy debates in South Africa in recent years. Taking this politically and emotionally charged issue as its starting point, this volume offers both expert commentary on this issue from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and also fresh ideas on how to advance the redistributive transformation that South Africa so urgently needs. It brings critically important debates around transformative property law, the need for diversified land justice and the possibilities of alternative forms of redistribution into productive conversation with each other. While grounded in the complex realities of South Africa's past and present, the volume speaks to concerns that resonate in many contexts in the Global South and beyond. It will appeal to scholars, students, policymakers and general readers concerned with both the theory and practice of redistributive justice. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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“…Differences in wealth status derive largely from both the number and type of off-farm income sources, as well as the gender of the household head and the size of a household, the incidence of household 'shocks' (e.g. death or unemployment), and the unequal numbers of cattle that households own (Hornby & Cousins, 2019). These are evident in data collected from a number of CPAs in the area.…”

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Navigating the contradictory dynamics of production and social reproduction in collectively owned agricultural enterprises in South Africa's land reform

Bunce,

Hornby,

Cousins

2024

Journal of Agrarian Change

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The paper explores how beneficiaries of South Africa's land reform programme attempt to navigate the contradictory dynamics of production and social reproduction in collectively owned agricultural enterprises. The Mphuzanyoni Communal Property Association in KwaZulu‐Natal province farms with commercial beef herds and the Mayime Cooperative in the Eastern Cape province is engaged in a joint venture dairy farming scheme in partnership with an agribusiness firm. Severe tensions are evident between the social reproduction of households and the requirements of simple or expanded reproduction of agricultural enterprises. Bernstein's concept of competing ‘funds’ is used to examine struggles over production and reproduction on the farms, in which members of socially differentiated households contest divergent visions for the collective enterprises. Conflicts centre on how labour and capital should be mobilised, how income and other benefits in kind should be distributed to households and whether or not income should be invested for purposes of simple or expanded reproduction of the enterprise. Challenges of governance are rooted in these conflicts rather than in group ownership as a form of property right.

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“Reproducing the social”: contradictory interconnections between land, cattle production and household relations in the Besters Land Reform Project, South Africa

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Cited by 10 publications

References 24 publications

Land Reform Opportunities Meet Democratic Challenges in Traditional Areas

Land Reform Opportunities Meet Democratic Challenges in Traditional Areas

Beyond Expropriation Without Compensation

Navigating the contradictory dynamics of production and social reproduction in collectively owned agricultural enterprises in South Africa's land reform

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