For the potential to be realised the provincial government must step up and communal farmers need a change of mindset
In 2024 SA will celebrate 30 years as a democracy. This celebration will coincide with South Africans going to the polls to elect a new government for the seventh time since the country put the apartheid era behind it in 1994.
However, the disproportionate emphasis on these policies, and in many instances their poor implementation, has had unintended consequences, among them that the development of township entrepreneurs and rural farmers has lagged. However, research has shown that 70%-90% of these farms are no longer productive because most of the resettled people had no experience in commercial farming and did not receive post-settlement support.
In the case of Transkei the infrastructure that was laid across the area during the implementation of the “betterment” policy between the 1930s and 1950s has collapsed. This policy was implemented to counter land degradation caused by high population density, soil erosion, limited availability of arable land and overgrazing due to farmers accumulating livestock as a store of wealth instead of selling them on the markets.
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