South Africa's land restitution programme, conceived as a reckoning with historical dispossession, is producing a quieter injustice of its own: black farmers granted land but denied the title deeds, financing, and institutional support needed to work it. The African Farmers' Association of South Africa warns that the Department of Land Reform has not only abandoned its beneficiaries but has begun evicting them from the very farms they were promised, reallocating land without consent and holding farmers accountable for funds they never controlled. In a country where land carries the weight of g
Land reform failures leaving black farmers vulnerable, warns Afasa
Black farmers face eviction from restituted farms, loss of livelihoods, and financial ruin through abandoned mentorship programs and unauthorized land reallocation.