Appendix: Profiles of provisional choice of study sites
Limpopo Province, South Africa
- Mavhungeni restitution and redistribution project: The project comprises a group of 161 families who received 744 hectares of land through the restitution of land rights process and a further 750 hectares of adjacent land through the SLAG redistribution programme.
- Munzhedzi restitution claim: The community informally occupied the land in 2000 and it was later formalised as a settled land claim in 2002. The land is approximately 1,400 hectares; there are around 350 households amongst the claimants of which around 180 have settled on the land.
- Manavhela land claim: 2,300 hectares of formerly white-owned commercial farms and a nature reserve that were restored to 404 households in 2002. A large part of the land is still used as a nature reserve with plans also in place for poultry, crop and pig farming on other sections.
- Dikgale redistribution project: a group of around 250 beneficiaries obtained ownership of this 2,000 hectares farm in 2002 through the redistribution programme.
- Zebediela restitution claim: a large citrus plantation and packaging factory that was formerly a state enterprise. The citrus operation is now run as a joint venture company with an outside investor bringing in management expertise and the claimants and workers as shareholders.
- Ribola: Around 100 families have settled on the land and are using it for crop production, and a land claim has been lodged.
Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe
- Fair Range Ranch: The ranch was occupied by ‘farm invaders’ in February 2000 and formally resettled as part of the Model A1 Fast Track resettlement scheme in 2001.
- Gutu: Model A1, ‘fast track’ resettlement settled since 2001
- Mateki hills: informal ‘land invasion’ settlements in former hunting blocks
- Chatsworth: Relatively large-scale Model A2 farms in Gutu district
- Save Valley wildlife conservancy: Portions have been resettled under the Model A1 scheme and incipient models for smallholder wildlife production, equity shares and indigenisation are being developed.
- Hippo Valley Estate subsidiary farms: former large-scale commercial out-growers for the Anglo-American owned Hippo Valley sugar estates which have been resettled by Model A2 indigenous farmers intending to grow sugar using the existing infrastructure.
Kunene, Otjozondjupa and Oshikoto and Omaheke regions, Namibia
- Queen Sophia (Kunene Region): This group resettlement project was started in 2000 and was planned for 50 households practising mixed farming under the day to day guidance of a Technical Adviser.
- The majority of beneficiaries of the Affirmative Action Loan Scheme preferred to buy farms in Otjozondjupa and Oshikoto regions. Under the AALS beneficiaries acquire large scale commercial farms with subsidised loans provided by Agribank.
- Beneficiaries of the Farm Unit Resettlement Scheme are found in all three regions. They were allocated portions of sub-divided commercial farms for individual farming purposes. Beneficiaries received the land free of charge but are required to pay a rent as soon as lease agreements between them and the state are been registered in the Deeds Office.
- Drimiopsis/Skoonheid cooperative resettlement in Omaheke Region. These two resettlement schemes are classified by the Ministry of Lands and Resettlement as co-operative resettlement schemes and date to the early 1990s.
Some comments and reflections on the World Bank land study Terms of Reference
Contested paradigms of ‘viability’ in redistributive land reform: perspectives from southern Africa (Ben Cousins & Ian Scoones)
