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Ward Anseeuw
Pretoria, South Africa
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La réforme agraire en Afrique du Sud
09/11/2011 - Article
A book about the persistent inequalities in South Africa in terms of land tenure and agriculture, to the detriment of the populations marginalized by apartheid, sixteen years after the advent of democracy.
Agrarian reform was not just an ideological shift on post-apartheid South Africa, it was expected to provide the conditions for political, social and economic stabilization. However, sixteen years after the advent of democracy, the country is still characterized by extreme dualism in terms of agriculture. This book shows that the liberal development model chosen by the South African authorities, which has resulted in restructuring that has only occasionally been supported by the appropriate measures, has not enabled those populations marginalized by apartheid to develop commercial agriculture, and has consequently done little to overcome the existing land tenure and agricultural inequalities. Worse still, the maintenance of a segregated territorial structure and the stagnation of the smallholder sector have exacerbated agricultural apartheid, one of the emblems of the apartheid system. It appears that change will be impossible without new economic instruments, which will mean taking a new look at the South African development model and rethinking the role of the State in social and economic regulation in the country.
La réforme agraire en Afrique du Sud
Le maintien d'une ségrégation agricole post-apartheid
Ward Anseeuw
Editions universitaires européennes
2011
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