ABSTRACT

South Africa’s land reform policy might succeed better if it had clear criteria for selecting beneficiaries for land redistribution. The National Development Plan identifies the intended beneficiaries and states how they should be selected, but implementation of the plan is haphazard. A 2019 report by the Presidency’s Land Reform and Agriculture Advisory Panel recommends that the beneficiary selection process be clear and transparent. In this paper, we respond to the report and expand on a proposal in the 2020 draft Beneficiary Selection Policy. Our study is based on a review of the relevant policies and the literature on beneficiary selection, and a profile of 833 potential land redistribution beneficiaries randomly selected from three provinces in South Africa. We highlight the flaws in the existing selection methods. Building on the suggestion of Vink and Kirsten (2019) of a tender or job application process, we suggest improvements we suggest improvements that could reduce inefficiencies and make the selection process inclusive and transparent.

摘要

如果南非的土地改革政策有明确的标准来选择土地重新分配的受益人，它可能会取得更好的成功。国家发展计划确定了预期的受益人并说明了如何选择他们，但该计划的实施是随意的。总统土地改革和农业咨询小组 2019 年的一份报告建议受益人选择过程清晰透明。在本文中，我们回应了该报告并扩展了 2020 年受益人选择政策草案中的一项提案。我们的研究基于对受益人选择相关政策和文献的回顾，以及从南非三个省随机选择的 833 名潜在土地再分配受益人的概况。我们强调了现有选择方法的缺陷。