A Review of the Political Economy of South African Land Reform and Its Contested Multifaceted Land Questions

Abstract South African land matters today emanate from the past racially based dispossession of black communities, which furthered white settler capitalism. Post-apartheid regimes have developed many policies to reverse this legacy, but with little effect. Political parties blamed Constitution for slow pace reform, arguing need amend it clarify ‘expropriation without compensation’. Based on a broad literature review, article suggests some political, economic and social lessons Africa’s reform. It aims understand how other countries dealt acquisition reform urban housing development projects, post-acquisition stage reasons failure success reforms. This calls an alignment stakeholders, inclusion in increasing powers provincial officers improve support beneficiaries subdivision large farms.