Focal point
Location
Mowbray
Cape Town
Phuhlisani began as a consultancy started by a group of people who wanted to support emerging farmers who obtained access to land through land reform programmes in South Africa. In 2015, after 12 years in operation as a Closed Corporation, the members of the company decided to convert Phuhlisani to a Non-Profit Company which took place in October 2015.
Phuhlisani NPC provides comprehensive services and support for sustainable land reform and rural development including:
- Research and strategy development at national, provincial district and local scales.
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Providing development facilitation and conflict resolution services in complex and contested development settings.
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Providing individual project planning and implementation support.
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Supporting rights determination, strengthening land holding institutions and helping develop functional land rights management systems.
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Developing and strengthening associations representing people acquiring land through the land reform programme.
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Designing comprehensive capacity development strategies and materials.
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Facilitating learning process approaches within institutions and across development programmes.
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Market scoping, agricultural enterprise development and joint venture formation.
Phuhlisani has adopted a trans-disciplinary approach to its work. This involves breaking down the boundaries between so called hard and soft skills, specialist and local knowledge.
The organization believes that this helps to identify solutions which are socially, economically and ecologically sustainable in a context where land and agrarian reform, the promotion of sustainable livelihoods and pro poor rural development take place within an increasingly complex and contested national and international environment.
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Resources
Displaying 6 - 10 of 34A review of policy and practice impacting on the provision of farm worker housing, access to services and security of tenure
This report prepared for the Laborie Dialogue Initiative (LDI) draws on a recent review of the
literature and empirical research conducted for the Cape Winelands District Municipality; analysis of
farm worker tenure security conducted for the High Level Panel appointed by Parliament which has
been supplemented by further desktop research and policy analysis. The report also reviews current
tax, VAT and rates regimes and the ways in which these influence employers’ willingness to invest in
Key issues impacting on farm worker housing, access to services and tenure security in the Cape Winelands
This report for public comment presents and analyses key issues arising from extensive interviews
conducted with workers on and off farm, individual employers, representatives of organised
agriculture, trade unions, NGOs, worker support organisations, municipal councillors and officials
together with representatives from provincial government departments. It sets out options for a
strategy to address farm worker housing and related needs.
A review of the literature on farmworker housing, access to services and tenure security on and off farms in the Cape Winelands District Municipality
This literature review aims to situate farm labour within the particular history of the development of agriculture in the Cape while providing a critical assessment of the changing approaches to thinking about farm workers and their socio-economic needs by employers and the state. The review aims to provide a knowledge baseline from which to distil key questions to guide an applied process of research and social dialogue in the Cape Winelands District and beyond
Land and Labour in South Africa 1913 - 1936
Dr Mulaudzi is a lecturer in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town. In this presentation made as part of a 4.5 day course on the political economy of land, mining and rural democracy in South Africa he critically examines different perspectives on the 1913 and 1936 Land Acts.
Rural struggles in South Africa 1936 - 1994
This input by Dr Aninka Claassens Director of the Land and Accoutability Centre at the University of Cape Town was presented as part of a five day short couse on the political economy of land mining and rural democracy. It provides a detailed history of processes and events which continue to shape South Africa's rural hinterland in the contemprary era.