South Africa’s land reform policy remains highly contested. But, in our view, a number of persistent myths about farmland statistics and the structure of commercial agriculture skew debates.
we estimated that most commercial farm enterprises are black owned. And that only 18% of these households are white.In 1994 white farmers owned 77.58 million ha of freehold land. We estimate that white farmers now. This follows the implementation of redistribution and restitution programmes and other transfers of land to the state and black farmers. It still represents 78% of freehold farmland but covers only 50% of the total surface area of South Africa.
If we take account of the farms that are not registered for VAT it is evident that 98% of all farming operations in South Africa are small-scale operations. Myth 4: All black farmers with private title deeds acquired their land through the land reform programme
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