Developmental Dynamics in South Africa's Eastern Cape Citrus Industry

Agrarian reform should be a process that takes place in a short period of time, by governments to redistribute considerable quantities of private land to landless peasants or to peasants with inadequate land. The focal point of this development is to ensure a reasonable spreading of farming land across the rural community and to promote national development by altering the skewed economic and political power in the countryside. Expectations of market-assisted land reform are different from those of state-assisted land reform. The former assumes that land is a mere commodity, while the latter acknowledges the political, economic and cultural value that is attached to land, and therefore, its control and property rights are reflected by the power relationships between social classes.