A story of a land claim benefiting all involved
In Tsitsikamma, restitution has led to a thriving dairy farm, incorporating wind energy and the former owners
Rural land, who should be on it and what to do with it, are hot topics. Black Monday, an attempt to draw attention to rural violence, caused controversy because of the presence of the old South African flag. AgriSA’s land audit found that the open market had successfully transferred land to black farmers but attracted criticism because it conflated black-owned with state-owned land and didn’t bore down into the details of new ownership. The Department of Rural Development and Land Reform achieved just 14% of its targets in the first quarter of 2017. After transfer to black ownership, huge tea estates in Limpopo and the Eastern Cape seem perpetually about to be "revived", despite large government investments. Vumelana Advisory Fund says that 90% of the useful farm land that has been transferred, amounting to 5.9-million hectares, has lost productivity. And yet, in the Tsitsikamma between the mountains and the sea west of the Kromme River near Humansdorp, a community of black farmers ...
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