Ruth Hall

When drafting policies to address this situation, it is important that the voices of the workers themselves are taken into account

There is very little clarity as to who owns what land in South Africa. A lack of reliable data and statistics doesn't help.

It's good election rhetoric but the main problems dogging farm redistribution are not being addressed, say Ben Cousins and Ruth Hall.

Can we create one million new jobs in agriculture as envisaged by the National Development Plan (NDP)? If so, how?

When President Jacob Zuma announced his new Cabinet, he ushered in a new era for the state's apparatus charged with responding to rural poverty.

Widely reported as ''the first farm expropriation'', the Commission on the Restitution of Land Rights recently announced that it had expropriated a 25 200ha farm near Barkley West in the Northern Cape to settle a restitution claim by 471 families. The expropriation notice came into effect on January 26 and the land is now vested with the state until it can be transferred to the claimants.