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Displaying 1 - 10 of 16Op-Ed: Will replacing white farm owners with black farm owners address inequalities?
Debates about land redistribution from white farm owners to black hands tend to be silent on the question of farm dwellers. This is despite the fact that over two million black people are estimated to be living on commercial farms. Many residents have lived on commercial farms for generations, and they are arguing that their plight should be at the centre of land debates, and that redistribution of commercial farmlands must deliver primarily to them. By SITHANDIWE YENI.
Op-Ed: Putting land at the heart of radical economic transformation – a perspective from the ground
The dominant debates about land in South Africa often focus on the transfer of land from a few white hands to the black majority. The discussion seldom unpacks who constitutes the “black majority” as this is not a homogeneous group. In instances where the debate touches on land use, again the focus is often limited to agricultural production and whether or not small-scale farmers are productive. This narrow framework clearly has to be broadened and we need to ask deeper and more strategic questions than the ones we have been asking.
Putting land at the heart of radical economic transformation – a perspective from the ground
The dominant debates about land in South Africa often focus on the transfer of land from a few white hands to the black majority. The discussion seldom unpacks who constitutes the “black majority” as this is not a homogeneous group. In instances where the debate touches on land use, again the focus is often limited to agricultural production and whether or not small-scale farmers are productive. This narrow framework clearly has to be broadened and we need to ask deeper and more strategic questions than the ones we have been asking.
THE AGRARIAN RURAL HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY: Status report on livelihoods, rights, and land use in selected sites.
Tshintsha Amakhaya (TA) is an action learning platform for civil society organisations that support local community struggles in land and agrarian reform. Through action research, campaigns, and building active participation, the TA alliance seeks to enhance rural people’s capacity to secure and realise their livelihoods and rights and to promote alternative models of land tenure and agricultural production for food sovereignty.
Submission: Green Paper on Land Reform
A community submission to the Chief Director of The Department of Rural Development and Land Reform Policy Research and Legislation, Mr S Ogunronbi, on the Green Paper on Land Reform in East London - 23 November 2011.
Report: THE NATIONAL LAND REFORM WORKSHOP
On 11 November 2011, representatives of 18 community organisations and 12 non-governmental organisations from around South Africa met in Balgowan in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands to discuss the Green Paper on Land Reform released by the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform.
Memorandums - Videos - Activities: Mayibuye iAfrika! Caravan Campaign
In 2013, South Afrika marked its 100 years without natives land. Then, Tshintsha Amakhaya (TA) - launched the Mayibuye iAfrika Campaign in 2011 at a national land reform workshop. The Campaign was intensified in 2013 - the centenary of the 1913 Native Land Act – through local actions, platform discussions, and country-wide events. The 2013 Campaign was aimed at amplifying the voices of rural women and men through supporting and connecting local struggles for land and agrarian transformation.
Access: Links to Tshintsha Amakhaya's activity reports
Since its formation, Tshintsha Amkhaya held a number of gatherings, either workshops or indabas with resolute and progressive outcomes - from activities igniting the spirit of activism, a quest to call for accountability and planning of broad actions to be taken by a collective to challenge the status quo.
Amongst others, reports of these gatherings can be found by clicking on the following links:
#BlackMonday: We Must Centre Farmworkers In The ‘Farm Killings’ Debate
'Farm killings, exclusively referring to horrors inflicted upon white bodies though violations and murders of both non-white farm workers and dwellers persist nationwide,' writes Sobantu Mzwakali, campaigns and advocacy officer at Tshintsha Amakhaya.
Op-Ed: Will replacing white farm owners with black farm owners address inequalities?
The debate about expropriation raises the critical issue of who should benefit from land reform, and Sthandiwe Yeni - national coordinator of Tshintsha Amakaya - opined a call by farm dwellers to change the current pattern of an elite few benefiting while the vulnerable majority remain ignored and neglected.