Property rights: Boere need to make a plan – IRR

12 October 2015

Frans Cronje says farmers need to play a much more decisive role in setting the terms of reference for the debate around land and agriculture
By Frans Cronje
How to safeguard the future of commercial farming in South Africa
This policy brief was produced by the IRR at the request of the Transvaal Agricultural Union – South Africa and many commercial farmers within the country…
The failure of the Government’s land reform efforts
Many farmers have long accepted the need for land reform to overcome the ongoing effects of past racial laws prohibiting the purchase of agricultural land by black people and the forced removal of more than 1.1 million Africans from “white” rural areas in the 1960s and 1970s. However, land reform to date has largely been a dismal failure.
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