Gaining Ground? Rights and Property in South African Land Reform
examines how land reform policy and practice in post-apartheid
South Africa have been produced and contested. Set in the province
of Mpumalanga, the book gives an ethnographic account of local
initiatives and conflicts, showing how the poorest sectors of the
landless have defied the South African state's attempts to
privatize land holdings and create a new class of African farmers.
They insist that the 'rights-based' rather than the 'market-driven'
version of land reform should prevail and that land restitution was
intended to benefit all Africans. However their attempts to gain
land access often backfire. Despite state assurances that land
reform would benefit all, illegal land selling and 'brokering' are
pervasive, representing one of the only feasible routes to land
access by the poor. This book shows how human rights lawyers, NGOs
and the state, in interaction with local communities, have tried to
square these symbolic and economic claims on land. Winner of the
inaugural Elliott P. Skinner Book Award of the Association of
Africanist Anthropology, 2008
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