Farm conflicts and the South African unresolved land question

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dc.contributor.authorAkinola, Adeoye
dc.date.accessioned2026-01-20T10:04:55Z
dc.date.available2026-01-20T10:04:55Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.departmentNamePublic Administration
dc.description.abstractSouth Africa is confronted by heightened socio-economic and political instability. This was borne out of apartheid history of land conflicts, dispossessions, exploitations, expropriations and contestations. It further reinforced inequalities and a skewed land distribution that deny Africans of land ownership and use. Post-apartheid governments have been unsuccessful in using land reform to resolve the national land question, redress structural violence and ameliorate the hostility between the white farmers and black farmworkers. This has continued to engender violent conflicts and farm murders. Thus, through desktop research, the article examines the link between land reform and farm conflicts, reviews the spate of farm murders, reveals the causes of farm conflict and locates farm conflict in historical and contemporary contexts. While the history of land dispossession and land inequality, failed land reform programmes, and poor labour relations between the farmers and farm workers account for the attacks on farmers; there are other intrinsic and deeply rooted factors responsible for farm attacks in the country. Indeed, farm murders are real, and the whites are usually the victims but categorizing it as purely a systemic "white genocide" might be an over sensitization of the issue. The government should recognize the peculiarity and complexity of farm conflict and protect the lives and property within its territorial integrity.
dc.facultyFaculty of Commerce, Administration and Law
dc.format.preprintNo
dc.identifier.citationAkinola, A.O., 2019. Farm conflicts and the South African unresolved land question. Ubuntu: Journal of Conflict and Social Transformation, 8(2), pp.75-92.
dc.identifier.issn2050-4950 (online)
dc.identifier.issn2078-760X (print)
dc.identifier.otherhttps://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC-1a70ebf228
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10530/58546
dc.issuenumber8 / 2
dc.language.isoen
dc.pages75 - 92
dc.peerreviewedYes
dc.publisherAdonis & Abbey Publishers
dc.subjectFarm conflict
dc.subjectLand dispossession
dc.subjectLand reform
dc.subjectStructural violence
dc.subjectSouth Africa
dc.titleFarm conflicts and the South African unresolved land question
dc.title.journalUbuntu: Journal of Conflict and Social Transformation
dc.typeJournal Article
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