Joana Bezerra – The Conversation

Land reform strategies portray the land as uniform, static and independent from its social-environmental context. GettyImages

September 20, 2020

South Africa’s land reform policies need to embrace social, economic and ecological sustainability

Penny Mograbi, Rhodes University; Alta De Vos, Rhodes University; Charlie Shackleton, Rhodes University; Hayley Clements, Stellenbosch University; Joana Bezerra, Rhodes University; Kaera Coetzer, University of the Witwatersrand, and Kristi Maciejewski, Stellenbosch University

South Africa’s that current land reform strategies focus too narrowly on agricultural outcomes and transferred ownership - this undermines equitable and sustainable land reform.

A gorge in the Eastern Cape. Land is much more than a resource for many, it has a strong symbolic value. Flickr/E

August 5, 2018

Land claims in South Africa: it’s about the meaning of the land, not just money

Joana Bezerra, Rhodes University

Land is culturally and historically important to people and often this is ignored when addressing land issues.

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