Land Redistribution in KwaZulu-Natal: An Analysis of Farmland Transactions from 1997 until 2002

摘要

Census surveys of land transactions sponsored by BASIS I&II show that 178,000 hectares of the Provinces commercial farmland transferred to previously disadvantaged South Africans over the period 1997-2002. This represents almost 3.5 per cent of the farmland originally available for redistribution in 1994. While the average rate of redistribution at 0.5% per annum falls short of government's target (2.0% per annum), the launch of its Land Redistribution for Agricultural Development (LRAD) program in August 2001 had a dramatic impact on land redistribution in 2002. In KwaZulu-Natal, the rate of land redistribution doubled and, for the first time since 1997 when the surveys commenced, transactions financed solely from government grants redistributed more land than did privately financed transactions (28,624 hectares versus 22,863 hectares).