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Department of Rural Development and Land
Reforms key programmes and policies intended to
benefit women and persons with disabilities in
South AfricaPresentation to the Portfolio
Committee on Women in the Presidency4 August
2015
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THE PRESENTATION OUTLINE
  • Overview of the Department of Rural Development
    and Land Reform (DRLDR)
  • Women Benefitted Form Land Reform
  • Rural Development
  • Land Acquisition
  • Recapitalization and Development
  • Profile of Women (Selected)
  • Ms. Candice Bostander
  • Ms. Fourie
  • An Approach towards Mainstreaming Gender and
    Designated Persons Matters in the DRDLR
  • Policy Development and the Further Anchoring of
    Gender and Other Designated Persons Matters in
    the DRDLR

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Strategic Direction
  • Vision
  • Vibrant, equitable, sustainable rural
    communities.
  • Mission
  • To initiate, facilitate, coordinate, catalyse and
    implement an integrated rural development
    programme.
  • Strategy
  • Agrarian Transformation

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Objectives of Agrarian transformation
  • The following are DRDLR agrarian transformation
    objectives
  • Social mobilisation to enable rural communities
    to take initiatives
  • Sustainable settlements (access to basic services
    and economic opportunity, meeting of basic human
    needs, infrastructure)
  • Establishment of cooperatives and enterprises for
    economic activities
  • Non-farm activities for strengthening of rural
    livelihoods
  • Skills development and employment creation
    (youth, women, people living with disabilities).

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DRDLR Strategic focus Virtuous Cycle
  • What to buy
  • Proactive acquisition of land based on SPLUM
    reports
  • Determine Where to implement
  • SIPs
  • 23 Districts
  • CRDP sites
  • PGDS
  • District IDPs
  • LM IDPs
  • Statssa Info (analysis)
  • LMC (Functions to be identified)
  • Who to assist
  • When to assist
  • How to assist
  • Community organisation into economic units of
    production
  • Training of communities
  • Provision of production inputs
  • Enter into strategic partnerships to support
  • Identify community and on farms infrastructure
    required
  • Skills development and training (Narysec)

DRDLR Virtuous Cycle
Strategic Projects
Infrastructure Projects i.e. When and what
infrastructure to deliver is determined by
community readiness to produce in the identified
areas that maximize governments investment.
Projects relating to the socio-economic,
regeneration of small towns, ICT, and special
projects will also be initiated by RID.
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Strategic Objectives
  • In line with the new developments in government
    and within the department, the Department of
    Rural Development and Land Reform has identified
    seven strategic goals it seeks to achieve in the
    five-year period of this plan and beyond.

Strategic Goal 1 Corporate governance and service excellence
Goal Statement Foster corporate governance and service excellence through compliance with the legal framework
Strategic Goal 2   Improve land administration for integrated and sustainable growth and development
Goal Statement   Improve land administration and spatial planning for integrated sustainable growth and development with a bias towards rural areas
Strategic Goal 3 Promote equitable access to and sustainable use of land for development
Goal Statement   An inclusive and equitable land dispensation with transformed patterns of land tenure and use
Strategic Goal 4 Promote sustainable rural livelihoods
Goal Statement   Improve rural livelihoods as a result of capabilities, income and job opportunities provided
Strategic Goal 5 Improved access to services
Goal Statement   Improve access to services in rural areas through the coordination of quality infrastructure
Strategic Goal 6 Sustainable rural enterprises and industries
Goal Statement   Promote economically, socially and environmentally viable rural enterprises and industries
Strategic Goal 7 Restoration of Land rights
Goal Statement   Restoration of land rights or equitable redress to those dispossessed of rights in land as a result of past racially discriminatory laws or practices, and solicitation and receipt of new claims for restitution of land rights, by 31 December 2018
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Legal mandates and analyses
Act Purpose
Restitution of Land Rights Act, 1994 (Act No. 22 of 1994) Through this Act, the department ensures provision for the restitution of rights in land to persons or communities dispossessed of such rights after 19 June 1913 as a result of past racially discriminatory laws or practices. To administer this task, the act provides for the establishment of a Commission on Restitution of Land Rights and a Land Claims Court, and for matters connected with land restitution.
Land Reform Provision of Land and Assistance Act, 1993 (Act No. 126 of 1993) The act requires that the department provides for the designation of certain land, the regulation of the subdivision of such land and the settlement of persons on it. In addition, it provides for the acquisition, maintenance, planning, development, improvement and disposal of property and the provision of financial assistance for land reform purposes.
Land Survey Act, 1997 (Act No. 8 of 1997) The act regulates the surveying of land in South Africa. The department is responsible for surveying land throughout the country.
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Legal Mandates and Analyses
Act Purpose
Deeds Registries Act, 1937 (Act No. 47 of 1937) The act makes provision for the administration of the land registration system and the registration of rights in land. Through the Office of the Chief Registrar of Deeds, the department is mandated to register title deeds for every property registration lodged
Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, 2013 (Act No. 16 of 2013) The act seeks to bridge the racial divide in spatial terms and to enable transformation of the settlement patterns of this country in a manner that gives effect to the key constitutional provisions, by the introduction of a new approach to spatial planning and land use management.
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Departmental Policies
Policies Analyses
Agricultural Land Holdings Policy Framework Introduce upper and lower limits to agricultural land holding sizes and also promotes productive and sustainable use of land.
State Asset Lease and Disposal Policy Create a single system for state land lease and disposal which promote development imperatives of government
Land Tenure Security Policy for People Working and Living on Commercial Farms Address tenure insecurity of farm dwellers, farm workers and their families.
Rural Development Policy Framework Aims to promote social and economic infrastructure, deploy resources of the Animal and Veld Management, River Catalytic, Enterprise Development and Industry Development programmes rural areas.
Recapitalisation and Development Programme Aims to recapitalise farm projects that were challenged as a result of constrained beneficiary and project support development and productivity
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Departmental Policies
Policies Analyses
Policy on a Rural Investment and Development Finance Facility To support smallholder farmers, communities on communal land and facilitate as well as incentivise development initiatives on commercial farming areas
Rural Enterprises and Industry Development Policies The policy seeks to draw from lessons from the Comprehensive Rural Development Programme (CRDP) and other rural enterprises and industry development initiatives in order to develop a consolidated, coordinated and feasible government policy on industry and enterprise development in rural areas.
Re-Opening of land claims in the Commission of Restitution of Land Rights Address the land needs of those who could not meet the December 1998 cut-off date for lodgement of claims
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Roles and Responsibilities
  • Programme 2 Geospatial and Cadastral Services
  • Focus is on the following areas
  • Provision of geo-spatial information in support
    of spatial equity and sustainable development
  • Provision of technical support to Municipalities
    through the development of Spatial Development
    Frameworks
  • Provision of training to augment the scarce
    skills in geomatics and
  • Investment in the development of the e-Cadastre
    system, which will enable a holistic view of land
    ownership, and to answer the question of who owns
    South Africa.

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Roles and Responsibilities
  • Programme 3 Rural Development
  • Focus is on the following
  • Provision of infrastructure to support access to
    basic services in order to promote rural
    livelihoods
  • Establishment of Agri-parks in 44 poorest
    district municipalities
  • Implementation of the Animal and Veld Management
    Programme
  • Revitalisation of irrigation schemes (RVCP)to
    enhance food production
  • Promotion of skills development and job creation
    with a bias to the youth in rural areas and
  • Support rural enterprise development in the
    agricultural and non-agricultural value chain.

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Roles and Responsibilities
  • Programme 4 Restitution
  • Focus is on the following areas
  • Settlement of land claims and finalising backlog
    claims
  • Contribute to the priority of sustainable land
    reform through restoration of land rights and
  • Planning and administration of the re-opening of
    restitution lodgement process.

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Roles and Responsibilities
  • Programme 5 Land Reform
  •  Focus is on the following areas
  • Acquisition and allocation of strategically
    located land
  • Security of tenure
  • Provision of support to emerging farmers through
    the Recapitalisation and Development Programme
    and
  • Provision of skills development and training
    support for emerging farmers and the creation of
    job opportunities in land reform projects.

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Links to other plans
Public Entities The Department is responsible
for the following public entities
Name of public entity Mandate Outputs
Agricultural Land Holding The Agricultural Land Holding Account was established in terms of the Provision of Land and Assistance Act (Act 126 of 1993)Section 10(1)(a) give legal effect to the proactive acquisition of land, where the Minister may, from money appropriated by Parliament for the purpose, acquire land for the purposes of this Act. Therefore the state will proactively target land and merge this with the demand or need for land. Acquisition of strategically located land for agricultural productivity.
KwaZulu-Natal Ingonyama Trust Board (ITB) The ITB is established in terms of the provisions of the KwaZulu-Natal Ingonyama Trust Act (Act No 3 of 1994). Its core business is to manage land for the material benefit and social wellbeing of the individual members of the tribes Administer Ingonyama Trust land for the material benefit and social benefit of the affected communities.
Registration of Deeds Trading Account To provide an integrated land planning, spatial information and administration system to promote equitable, sustainable land use and allocation by 2019 Improved land administration through professional advisory services for efficient and effective surveying and registration of rights in land Expedite the registration of rights in land for land reform and restitution.
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Structure of DRDLR
  • DRDLR consists of a number of components
    representing and supporting the mandate namely
  • The Ministry
  • The Office of the Director-General
  • Branch Restitution
  • Branch Land Redistribution and Development
  • Branch Land Tenure and Administration
  • Branch Spatial Planning and Land Use Management
  • Branch Rural Enterprise and Industrial
    Development
  • Branch Rural Infrastructure Development
  • Branch Deeds Registration
  • Branch National Geomatics Management Services
  • Branch Corporate Support Services
  • Branch Financial Services
  • Each Branch has provincial offices within the
    Provincial Shared Centre across all 9 provinces

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MACRO LEVEL ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE FOR THE
DEPARTMENT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND LAND REFORM
Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform
Deputy Minister of Rural Development and Land
Reform
Deputy Minister of Rural Development and Land
Reform
Director-General DRDLR
Chief Directorate Strategic and Management
Support
Chief Directorate Internal Audit
Chief Directorate International Relations and
Community Liaison
Ministerial Support Staff Annexure 1
Chief Directorate Cluster Coordination, Special
Programmes and Intergovernmental Relations
Chief Directorate Safety and Security Services
Chief Directorate Policy Research and Development
Chief Directorate Risk Management
Branch Rural Enterprise and Industrial
Development
Branch Rural Infrastructure Development
Branch National Geomatics Management Services
Branch Corporate Support Services
Branch Financial Services
Branch Deeds Registration
Branch Restitution
Branch Spatial Planning and Land Use Management
Branch Land Tenure and Administration
Branch Land Redistribution and Development
Provincial Shared Services Centre (X 9)
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GENERIC STRUCTURE FOR THE CHIEF
DIRECTORATE PROVINCIAL SHARED SERVICES CENTRE


CHIEF DIRECTORATE PROVINCIAL SHARED SERVICES
CENTRE
Provincial Shared Services Centers Gauteng North
West Limpopo Mpumalanga Kwa-Zulu Natal Free
State Eastern Cape Western Cape Northern Cape
Directorate Service Delivery Coordination
Directorate Provincial Support Services
Regional Shared Service Centres
Directorate Provincial Financial Services
Directorate Rural Enterprise and Industrial
Development
Surveyor-General Office
Directorate Social Organisation and Youth
Development
Deeds Office
Directorate Spatial Planning Services
Directorate Strategic Land Acquisition
Directorate Rural Infrastructure Development
Chief Directorate Land Restitution Support
Directorate Property Management
Directorate Tenure Systems Implementation
Directorate Recapitalization Development
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Employment Equity Target
  • Gender Parity
  • The Department is fairly balanced in terms Gender
    in the middle and lower levels.
  • Gender representation at senior management level
    is 59 Males, and 41 Females.
  • Gap of 9 that needs to be addressed in order to
    reach 50 women representation at senior
    management level.
  • Department is committed to achieving equitable
    representation of women at senior management
    level, and preference is given to suitably
    qualified women in the filling of senior
    management positions.

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Number of Women and Men at SMS level
SALARY LEVELS MALE MALE MALE MALE FEMALE FEMALE FEMALE FEMALE  TOTAL GENDER GENDER
SALARY LEVELS A C I W A C I W  TOTAL MALE FEMALE
13 86 6 8 16 55 4 6 14 195 116 79
14 28 3 3 9 22 3 1 3 72 43 29
15 3 2 0 0 3 0 1 1 10 5 5
16 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 3 1
TOTAL 120 12 11 25 80 7 8 18 281 167 114
CURRENT REPRESENTATION 43 4 4 9 28 2 3 6 100 59 41
NATINAL DEMOGRAPHICS 40.30 5.60 1.90 6.20 34.90 5.0 1.20 4.6 100 54 46
GAPS 2.7 -1.6 2.1 2.8 -6.9 -3 1.8 1.4 5 -5
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Adherence to 2 Target for Persons with
Disabilities
  • Disability Policy of the Department is aligned to
    support the creation of a user-friendly
    environment for People with Disabilities.
  • Policy further supports employment of People
    with Disabilities in order to achieve equitable
    representation in the staffing levels.
  • Disability Forum of the Department advocates the
    interests and rights of employees with
    disabilities.
  • Forum meets regularly to address issues that
    affect them in the work place.
  • Project Plan is currently being implemented to
    fast-track the recruitment of People with
    Disabilities in order to achieve the set target
    of 2.

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Employees with disabilities in the Department
MALE REPRESENTATION MALE REPRESENTATION MALE REPRESENTATION MALE REPRESENTATION MALE REPRESENTATION FEMALES FEMALES FEMALES FEMALES   GENDER GENDER
                       
  A C I W A C I W TOTAL MALE FEMALE
level 13-14 1 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 5 4 1
level 9-12 11 1 0 9 6 0 1 3 31 21 10
level 7-8 9 0 1 3 7 2 0 7 29 13 16
level 4-6 7 4 1 3 11 2 0 5 33 15 18
level 1-3 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 4 3 1
Current Representation 31 5 3 17 25 4 1 15 101 56 45
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Adherence to 2 Target for Persons with
Disabilities
  • National target for Persons with disabilities is
    2 and current representation of employees with
    disabilities is 1.7 .
  • The under-representation has been noted, and
    management will intensify efforts and ensure that
    this target is achieved.
  • Projects in the process of being submitted to the
    executive management for consideration is for
    each branch to identify certain posts at various
    salary levels exclusively for persons with
    disabilities and, targeted recruitment
    campaigns
  • The achievement of disability equity remains an
    HR priority of the Department.

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Directorate Women, Children and Persons with
Disabilities
  • Located in the Office of the Director General in
    the Chief Directorate Policy Development
  • The unit is headed by a Director
  • Each Provincial Office has a Deputy Director post
    allocated to deal with Women, Children and
    Persons with Disabilities

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Overview of departmental programmes work wrt women
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SUPPORT TO RURAL WOMAN
  • Support of rural arts and craft cooperatives
  • to participate in various exhibitions and
    markets, e.g. Decorex, SARCDA, Rand Show,
    Grahamstown Festiva international marketsl
    preparation, training and produce, orders and
    supply (930 women participating)
  • Training for arts and craft cooperatives in
    issues of governance
  • Retail shop opened for Arts and Crafts Co-ops in
    Durban
  • Arts and Crafts coops currently in process of
    establishing a cooperatives bank
  • Support to various women owned/managed rural
    enterprises in the agricultural and
    non-agricultural value chain, in all 9 provinces
    towards sustainable enterprise development and
    participation in the rural economy, example
  • Abafazi Besintu Agricultural Cooperative in the
    Eastern Cape
  • Women in Poultry and Multi purpose Cooperative in
    Free State and
  • Women in Poultry Cooperative, Thembelani Bakery
    and Akwande crop production cooperatives in
    Gauteng
  • Reamat Kreaxions sewing cooperative and Temothuo
    Essential Oils cooperative in Limpopo
  • Women and Youth vegetables, fruit and crop
    production cooperative in Mpumalanga
  • Rearoka Sewing cooperative in Northern Cape
  • Boinelo Tailoring and fashion designing
    Cooperative in North West

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SUPPORT TO RURAL WOMEN
  • Infrastructure Development
  • Provision of water sanitation housing and
    energy to rural households
  • Provision of bridges and roads (EC Mvezo)
    ensures that women from surrounding villages have
    improved access and safety and dignity.
  • Training in ICT at schools and community level
  • Animal and Veld Management programme AVMP
  • Several projects implemented across the country
    in soil rehabilitation de-bushing to improve
    land for production
  • National Rural Youth Service Corps
  • Youth recruited for a two year period and undergo
    various training (leadership training in
    partnership with SANDF a minimum of NQF level
    two training at FETs community service) the
    principle of the programme is to ensure that 50
    are female
  • Several young women have also been part of the
    international exchange programme with China

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(a) Land Acquisition and Allocation By Gender
PROVINCE REDISTRIBUTION STATISTICS 1994 - MARCH 2015 REDISTRIBUTION STATISTICS 1994 - MARCH 2015 REDISTRIBUTION STATISTICS 1994 - MARCH 2015 REDISTRIBUTION STATISTICS 1994 - MARCH 2015 REDISTRIBUTION STATISTICS 1994 - MARCH 2015 REDISTRIBUTION STATISTICS 1994 - MARCH 2015 REDISTRIBUTION STATISTICS 1994 - MARCH 2015
PROVINCE Projects Hectares Beneficiaries Female House Holds Youth Disabled
EC 851 520 742 26 656 3 657 1 394 2 342 28
FS 864 398 388 8 056 2 295 2 168 1003 1
GP 388 56 497 7 465 903 5 992 415 1
KZN 882 549 414 77 197 21 578 42 472 14 186 68
LP 386 147 420 9 866 1 195 6 074 830 35
MP 623 464 156 17 692 1 384 17 982 783 8
NC 352 1 420 400 2 041 956 4 192 712 22
NW 518 445 603 58 054 8 817 33 018 3 711 400
WC 320 553 378 28 582 10 097 9 446 9 126 115
TOTALS 5 184 4 555 998 235 609 50 882 122 738 33 108 678
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(a) Land Acquisition and Allocation by Gender
Contd
PROVINCE REDISTRIBUTION STATISTICS 2009 - 31 MARCH 2015 REDISTRIBUTION STATISTICS 2009 - 31 MARCH 2015 REDISTRIBUTION STATISTICS 2009 - 31 MARCH 2015 REDISTRIBUTION STATISTICS 2009 - 31 MARCH 2015 REDISTRIBUTION STATISTICS 2009 - 31 MARCH 2015 REDISTRIBUTION STATISTICS 2009 - 31 MARCH 2015 REDISTRIBUTION STATISTICS 2009 - 31 MARCH 2015
PROVINCE FARMS Hectares Beneficiaries Female House Holds Youth Disabled
EC 230 211 578 1 551 469 511 296 3
FS 168 125 648 577 247 36 130 0
GP 114 22 852 297 117 148 92 0
KZN 260 163 737 7 523 3 737 2 904 3 353 11
LP 152 68 300 2 873 362 247 358 14
MP 193 160 400 1 269 493 125 674 1
NC 93 505 588 259 80 16 84 4
NW 197 165 037 3 373 1 959 934 623 2
WC 60 65 101 2 279 833 482 539 14
TOTALS 1 467 1 488 241 20 001 8 297 5 403 6 149 49
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Land Acquisition Summary
  • Overall progress regarding the redistribution of
    white owned agricultural land in South Africa (82
    million ha) - from 1994 to 31 March 2015, 4 555
    995 million ha under have been delivered through
    Land Redistribution through 5 184 projects,
    benefiting 235 609 beneficiaries , of which
  • 50 882 (21) are women,
  • 33 108 are youth and
  • 678 are people with disability.
  • Comparatively, from 2009 to 31 March 2015 there
    were 1 488 241 million ha under Land
    Redistribution through 1 467 projects, benefiting
    20 001 beneficiaries of which 8 297 (41) are
    women, 6 149 are youth and 49 are people with
    disability.
  • The above statistics suggests that there is 50
    improvement (From 21 to 41) in benefitting
    women under this programme in a form of either
    groups, individuals and black emergent farmers
    obtaining grants as well as land acquired under
    lease hold

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Restitution Land Delivery by Gender Since 1994 to
December 2013
PROVINCE RADP STATISTICS 2009 - 2015 RADP STATISTICS 2009 - 2015 RADP STATISTICS 2009 - 2015 RADP STATISTICS 2009 - 2015 RADP STATISTICS 2009 - 2015
PROVINCE CLAIMS SETTLED HECTARES SETTLED HOUSEHOLDS BENEFICIARIES FEMALE HEADEAD HOUSEHOLDS
EC 16465 136752 67579 257094 25947
FS 2685 54058 7619 49022 2721
GP 13327 17189 14157 64432 5481
KZN 15171 771022 85477 499722 26571
LP 3655 639287 50731 256489 18993
MP 2847 473673 53832 257597 18420
NC 3719 575732 22656 120270 9362
NW 3740 407057 40476 202932 18507
WC 16001 4178 28613 131437 12459
TOTALS 77610 3 078 948 371140 1 838 997 138456
Source 2014 DRDLR End of Term Report 37,3 Female Headed Households Source 2014 DRDLR End of Term Report 37,3 Female Headed Households Source 2014 DRDLR End of Term Report 37,3 Female Headed Households Source 2014 DRDLR End of Term Report 37,3 Female Headed Households Source 2014 DRDLR End of Term Report 37,3 Female Headed Households Source 2014 DRDLR End of Term Report 37,3 Female Headed Households
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Summary of Land Restitution Delivery by Gender
  • The table that draws from data as of December
    2013 indicates the following
  • 77610 Claims were Settled
  • This involved 3 078 948 Hectares
  • This further involved a total of 371140
    households, of which
  • 138 456 were female Headed Households (37,3 of
    all households)

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Recapitalization and Development Projects by
Gender
PROV RADP STATISTICS 2009 - 2015 RADP STATISTICS 2009 - 2015 RADP STATISTICS 2009 - 2015 RADP STATISTICS 2009 - 2015 RADP STATISTICS 2009 - 2015 RADP STATISTICS 2009 - 2015 RADP STATISTICS 2009 - 2015 RADP STATISTICS 2009 - 2015 RADP STATISTICS 2009 - 2015 RADP STATISTICS 2009 - 2015 RADP STATISTICS 2009 - 2015
PROV Projects Partnerships Others Mentors Strategic Partner Hectares Beneficiaries Jobs Created Women Employed Farmers Trained Women Trained
EC 196 93 103 51 42 117 802 3 498 452 132 137 29
FS 182 78 104 34 44 134 587 1 340 7 3 41 11
GP 117 33 84 22 11 20 234 529 3 0 1 0
KZN 218 110 108 42 68 138 123 8 216 792 367 546 181
LP 206 79 127 73 6 84 393 3 343 726 272 172 97
MP 209 88 121 55 33 166 420 5 807 731 167 270 87
NC 83 53 30 30 23 484 222 820 900 214 193 78
NW 216 96 120 16 80 227 688 2 158 337 142 71 54
WC 69 21 48 7 14 48 377 2 786 1 525 1 226 771 670
TOTALS 1 496 651 845 330 321 1 421 846 28 497 5 473 2 523 2 202 1 207
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Summary on Recapitalization and Development
  • Despite challenges in the implementation of the
    Recapitalization and Development programme but
    significant progress has been made
  • The key strategic objective of the programme is
    to Provide comprehensive farm development
    support to smallholder farmers and land reform
    beneficiaries for agrarian transformation by
    2019.
  • There are 1 496 farms under the programme in
    terms of the 5 year funding model. This
    constitutes 1 421 846 million hectares under the
    programme.
  • Payment for the interventions is done in tranches
    based on the approved business plans.
  • Expenditure of R 3, 378, 248,129 billion for
    recapitalization and development incurred from
    2009 to March 2015. There are currently 651
    strategic partnerships secured to provide
    technical, financial and Infrastructure support
    to farmers.
  • The support varies from production inputs,
    Infrastructure, machinery and implements.
  • There are 5 473 Jobs Created of which 2 523 (46)
    are women received different kinds of jobs. Also
    2 202 farmers are capacitated in the form of
    training and 1 207 of such farmers are women

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An Approach towards Mainstreaming Gender and
Designated Persons Matters in the DRDLR
  • The Constitutional Promise
  • The Constitution of South Africa and its intent
    suggests that women, children, persons with
    disabilities and elderly are amongst priority
    beneficiaries
  • The Preamble of the Constitution states as
    follows
  • We, the people of South Africa,
  • Recognize the injustices of our past
  • Honour those who suffered for justice and freedom
    in our land
  • Respect those who have worked to build and
    develop or country and
  • Believe that South Africa belongs to all who live
    in it, united in our diversity.
  • We therefore, through our freely elected
    representatives, adopt this Constitution as the
    supreme
  • law of the Republic so as to
  • Heal the divisions of the past and establish a
    society based on democratic values, social
    justice and fundamental human rights
  • Lay the foundations for a democratic and open
    society in which government is based on
  • the will of the people and every c citizens is
    equally protected by law
  • Improve the quality of life of all citizens and
    free the potential of each person and
  • Build a united and democratic South Africa able
    to take its rightful place as a sovereign state
    in the family of nation

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An Approach towards Mainstreaming Gender and
Designated Persons Matters in the DRDLR
  • The Constitutional Promise Contd
  • The Founding Provisions in Chapter 1of the
    Constitution states, amongst others that
  • Republic of South Africa is one, sovereign,
    democratic state founded on the following values
  • Human dignity, the achievement of equality and
    the advancement of human rights and freedoms
  • Non-racialism and non-sexism, and
  • Supremacy of the constitution and the rule of
    law.
  • The Bill of Rights (Chapter 2) of the
    Constitution further states that
  • This Bill of Rights is a cornerstone of democracy
    in South Africa. It enshrines the rights of all
    people in our country and affirms the democratic
    values of human dignity, equality and freedom.
  • The state must respect, protect, promote and
    fulfill the rights in the Bill of Rights.
  • The rights in the Bill of Rights are subject to
    the limitations contained or referred to
  • in section 36, or elsewhere in the Bill. The Bill
    of Rights applies to all law, and binds the
    legislature, the executive, h e .judiciary and
    all organs of state.

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An Approach towards Mainstreaming Gender and
Designated Persons Matters in the DRDLR
  • The Constitutional Promise Contd
  • With Respect to Equality and discrimination the
    Constitution (under Chapter2 on the Bill of
    Rights) states as follows
  • Everyone is equal before the law and has the
    right to equal protection and benefit of the
    law.
  • Equality includes the full and equal enjoyment of
    all rights and freedoms.
  • To promote the achievement of equality,
    legislative and other measures designed to
    protect or advance persons, or categories of
    persons, disadvantaged by unfair discrimination
    may be taken.
  • The state may not unfairly discriminate directly
    or indirectly against anyone on . grounds,
    including race, gender, sex, pregnancy, marital
    status, ethnic or social origin, colour, sexual
    orientation, age, disability, religion,
    conscience, belief, culture, language and birth
  • With respect to the Property Clause in Section
    25
  • Section 25 (5) states that The state must take
    reasonable legislative and other measures, within
    its available resources, to foster conditions
    which enable citizens to gain access to land on
    an equitable basis .

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An Approach towards Mainstreaming Gender and
Designated Persons Matters in the DRDLR
  • The Constitutional Promise Contd
  • Sections 26, 27, 28 and29 of the Constitution is
    also instructive in areas that affect women and
    designated persons directly
  • With respect to Housing
  • Everyone has the right to have access to adequate
    housing and the state must take reasonable
    legislative and other measures, within its
    available resources, to achieve the progressive
    realisation of this right.
  • No one may be evicted from their home, or have
    their home demolished, without an order of court
    made after considering all the relevant
    circumstances.
  • No legislation may permit arbitrary evictions.
  • With respect to Health care, food, water and
    social security
  • Everyone has the right to have access to health
    care services, including reproductive health
    care sufficient food and water and social
    security, including, if they are unable to
    support themselves and their dependants

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An Approach towards Mainstreaming Gender and
Designated Persons Matters in the DRDLR
  • The Constitutional Promise Contd
  • With Respect to Children every child has the
    right to care and basic nutrition, shelter, basic
    health care services and social services
  • With respect to Education Everyone has the right
    to Basic education, including adult basic
    education .
  • The Principles of the Green Paper on Land Reform
  • The 2011 Green paper on Land Reform commits to
    three fundamental principles for the review of
    land reform policies and programmes
  • Deracializing the Rural Economy
  • Democratic Land Allocation Across Race Class and
    Gender
  • Sustainable production discipline for food
    security (and food sovereignty)

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An Approach towards Mainstreaming Gender and
Designated Persons Matters in the DRDLR
  • The Core Problem Being Addressed
  • The Triple Challenge of high levels of
    inequality, unemployment and poverty are central
    to the problem being addressed
  • The 2014 Statistics South Africa Poverty Trends
    Report Points to the following
  • High Inequality, particularly amongst blacks as
    compared to whites
  • Despite advances made through Social Grants there
    are still 23 million South Africans citizens that
    continue to live on or below the food poverty
    line (i.e. 45 of our total 2011 Population)
  • 10,2millin South African live in extreme poverty
    ( 20 of citizens)
  • Poverty is highest in rural areas with the
    largest rural Provinces (KwaZulu Natal, Eastern
    Cape and Limpopo) Accounting for 65 of all
    poverty in South Africa.
  • Poverty is thus most pronounced amongst
  • Rural Populations
  • Children
  • Women
  • Youth and
  • The Poorly educated

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An Approach towards Mainstreaming Gender and
Designated Persons Matters in the DRDLR
  • Hence the approach is one that
  • Takes cognizance of the Constitutional Protection
    of women and other designated persons (children,
    elderly and persons with disability) that tend to
    be the burden of women as is based on prevailing
    and present community social norms
  • Mobilizes women and other designated persons to
    inform rural development and land reform policy
    developments
  • Ensures that they partake actively in structures
    created by policy and legislation that are aimed
    at guiding and administering the policies and
    programmes of rural development and land reform.
    These include
  • Councils of Stakeholders for rural development
  • Land Rights Management Committees to be
    established locally to address tenure security
    challenges in commercial farming areas and find
    lasting social solutions to this problem
  • District Land Reform Committees established in
    terms of the NDP and aimed at redistributing 20
    of all farm land in every of our 44 District
    Municipalities.

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An Approach towards Mainstreaming Gender and
Designated Persons Matters in the DRDLR
  • Women In Agriculture and Agrarian Transformation
    as the Basis for Broader Rural Development .
  • The 2013 Statistics SA Report on South African
    Households in Agriculture, presents, amongst
    others, the following showing statistics
  • Despite study covering all households in
    Agriculture women led households in agriculture
    predominate in KZN, Limpopo and E/Cape where
    poverty is highest

PROVINCE MALE HEADEAD HOUSEHOLDS FEMALE HEADED HOUSEHOLDS
Western Cape 61 393 23176
Eastern Cape 271 400 325 173 More than Male Headed Households
Northern Cape 36 390 18 760
Free State 118 390 82 896
KwaZulu Natal 328 700 388 305 More than Male Headed Households
North West 131 394 82 654
Gauteng 185 225 93 884
Mpumalanga 145 455 117 936 Relatively close to number of Male Headed Households
Limpopo 223 173 245 320 More than Male Headed Households
TOTALS 1 501 529 1 378 108
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EXAMPLES OF POLICIES THAT WILL DIRECTLY IMPACT ON
WOMEN
  • All policies being reviewed and legislation being
    developed will impact directly on women
  • As indicated, the Principles of the 2011 Green
    Paper on Land Reform. Amongst others calls for,
    Democratic Land Allocation Across Race Class and
    Gender. The policies that will be highlighted
    are the following
  • The Rural Economy Transformation Model
  • The Regulation of land Holdings Policy
  • The Land Tenure Security Policy for Commercial
    Farming Areas and
  • The Communal Land Tenure Policy

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Case Study Briefs
  • MS. CANDICE BOSTANDER (8511210187082)
  • BACK GROUND
  • Ms. Candice Bostander is a young female farmer
    from Griekwastad farming at Banksfontein Farm
    leased to her by the Department of Rural
    Development and Land Reform. Ms. Candice
    Bostander was born on the 21 November 1985 in
    Griekwastad and she is the eldest daughter out of
    the (5) siblings in her farming family. She
    completed her Grade 12 at Northern Cape Technical
    High School in 2004 and ventured full time into
    farming business as a family inherited or
    imbedded culture.
  • Ms. Candice Bostander has been farming for
    approximately ten (10) years and has gained
    extensive practical farming experience from her
    late grandfather. She was previously farming
    with 125 small stock (consisting of dorper sheep
    and boer goats) and 24 Afrikaner Cattle at a
    200ha congested and overgrazed commonage farm
    with little prospect of growth. She has since
    managed to grow her livestock to 250 within four
    months of occupation of Banksfontein Farm and now
    owns 150 dorper sheep and 100 boer goats.
  • Furthermore, she is in possession of a branding
    certificate in her own name and markets her
    livestock every six months at GWK. Ms. Candice
    Bostander in two years, she is planning to
    increase her number livestock to 800, which is
    the full carrying capacity of the Farm. She has
    created employment by employing one permanent
    Farm Worker and two casual Farm Workers who will
    assist her during critical times of the year.
  • The Farm Banksfontein is located 16 km North from
    Griekwastad in the Siyancuma Local Municipality
    under the Pixely Ka Seme District Municipality
    and measured 2576.7680 (two five seven six point
    seven six eight zero) hectares in extent was
    bought by the Department of Rural Development and
    Land Reform through Pro-Active Land Acquisition
    Strategy in 2014 / 2015 financial year for the
    sum of R 5 526 000.00 (Five Million Five Hundred
    And Twenty Six Thousand Rand) and Ms. Candice
    Bostander was recommended by the District
    Beneficiary Selection Committee as a potential
    lessee to lease the Farm from the Department of
    Rural Development and Land Reform in March 2015.

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Case Study Briefs
  • PROFILE OF MS. CANDICE BOSTANDER (8511210187082)
    - CONTINUED
  • CURRENT FARM SITUATION
  • Ms. Candice Bostander is currently farming at
    Banksfontein Farm, which is measuring 2576.7680
    (two five seven six point seven six eight zero)
    hectares in extent. The Department of
    Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development is
    also assisting the farmer with extension
    services. The Average rainfall in the area of the
    farm is between 100mm to 300mm per annum. The
    grazing capacity of the Farm is 13ha per LSU and
    the carrying capacity is 120 LSU or 720 SSU. The
    recommended number of livestock for the farm is
    20 cattle and 600 sheep. The Farm is having (14)
    fourteen camps, (5) five windmills equipped with
    (5) boreholes, seven (7) water dams and eleven
    (11) drinking water troughs.
  • The Farm is located 16 km North from Griekwastad
    in the Siyancuma Local Muncipality under the
    Pixely Ka Seme District Municipality. The
    advantage of the Farm is that it is also situated
    next to the following Departments Farms Membys
    Vlakte, Bonteheuwel, Vaalpan, Kranshoek and De
    Bult, which were previously acquired by the
    Department of Rural Development and Land Reform.
    The Farm Banksftonein is essential as it will be
    clustered together with the above mentioned
    Departments Farms in terms of the
    Recapitalization and Development Programme.
  • TRAINING/INFORMATION SESSIONS
  • Ms. Candice Bostander will be capacitated through
    various trainings and information sessions to be
    conducted by the Department of Rural Development
    and Land Reform and the Department of Agriculture
    Land Reform and Rural Development. The trainings
    that Ms. Candice Bostander will be required to
    attend includes amongst others bookkeeping,
    financial management, utilisation and management
    of human and natural resources, animal husbandry,
    farm management, sheep grading, veld management
    and fence maintenance.
  • FARMING PRACTICES
  • Ms. Candice Bostander is practising rotational
    grazing system. She is also having a vaccination
    program in place for livestock which basically
    about dipping, dosing, castration, dehorning,
    mating, weaning etc. she is also keeping records
    of her farming which is basically about the
    income and expenditure of her farming.
  • MARKETING
  • Ms. Candice Bostander is marketing her livestock
    at GWK and also sells to the local community
    members and emerging farmers.

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Case Study Briefs
  • PROJECT PROFILE FOR PLOT 264 Case 2
  • PROJECT BACKGROUND
  • Plot 264 is situated in the Francis Baard
    District Municipality, Phokwane Local
    Municipality, Northern Cape Province with
    property description Plot 264,a remainder of Plot
    167, Vaalharts Settlement , measuring 26.6827
    hectares and was purchased with R 1 900 000 on 15
    August 2013. The farm is only used for irrigation
    purposes.
  • There are 25.7 hectares of water use entitlement
    attached to the property and water is supplied by
    Vaalharts Irrigation scheme. The subject property
    is irrigated through flood irrigation system.
  • The farm is currently leased to Ms Mmapule Fourie
    (581205 0876 088). Prior to Ms Fourie being
    appointed as a lessee for Plot 264, she was
    farming on a 4 hectare piece of land leased from
    the Tedcaster Primary School since 2006 and
    paying a rental amount of R800 on a monthly
    basis. She was the Provincial female farmer of
    the year 2009 in the subsistence category. She
    was selling her produce at Boxer Supermarket in
    Taung, VV Co-operative in Hartswater and the
    local community. She had a market supply contract
    for spinach with Boxer Supermarket.
  • CURRENT SITUATION
  • Ms Fourie is currently marketing her produce at
    Senwes. She had a challenge in terms of producing
    the good quality spinach to Boxer Supermarket as
    a result her contract is terminated.
  • The Department of Rural Development and Land
    Reform has assisted her with maize inputs cost
    amounting to R 420 000.00 for the 2013/14
    financial year.
  • She was also assisted with the following
    implements tractor, trailer, fertilizer sprayer
    and generator.
  • The Department of Agriculture has also assisted
    her with the crop input costs i.e. wheat and
    maize for the past two (2) planting seasons.
    Currently the department is still in a process of
    installing a center pivot at the farm.
  • Ms Fourie received training on marketing, basic
    financial management, SWOT analysis and
    characteristics of an entrepreneur facilitated by
    SEDA 
  • PRODUCTION
  • She has produced a total of 625 tons of grains
    i.e. (maize -500 tons and wheat _at_125 tons)
  • Income generated from the produce to date amounts
    to R 667 000.00

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5. IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY
RURAL ECONOMY TRANSFORMATION MODEL (RETM)
  • Agricultural Transformation is seen as the key to
    transforming the rural economy and thus
    fundamental to the nations progress.
  • Core element in agricultural transformation is
    the empowerment of people through land
  • Model proposes
  • A share-equity enterprise framework to develop
    this potential and ensure a substantive share for
    community
  • Establishment of Rural Investment and Development
    Finance Facility (RIDFF) to acquire the
    substantive majority share for community in such
    investments/projects.
  • Variety of local structures and processes to
    ensure active participation of citizens to
    determine the application of their land rights
    and their social and economic advancement through
    rural development. These include
  • Councils of Stakeholders at local/ ward levels
    CPAS/ Land Trusts traditional councils
    household forums in traditional communal land
    areas elected counselors in wall-to-wall
    municipal areas and investment and development
    structures.

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5. IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY
RURAL ECONOMY TRANSFORMATION MODEL (contd)
  • RETM will be implemented though the Agrarian
    Transformation System (which summarises the
    mandate of the DRDLR).
  • Agrarian Transformation denotes a rapid and
    fundamental change in the relations (systems and
    patterns of ownership and control) of land,
    livestock, cropping and community.
  • Presents four Development Measurables, laid out
    in phases and meant to run sequentially and
    simultaneously
  • a) Meeting basic human needs
  • b) Rural enterprise development
  • c) Agro-village industries, sustained by credit
    facilities/ value-chain markets
  • d) Improved land tenure systems.

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Rural Development Framework (contd)
  • Also proposes to establish a Development Support
    System comprising
  • A reformed communal tenure system (as proposed by
    the CLTP)
  • A democratised rural administration system
  • A Rural Development Agency
  • A Rural Investment and Development Financing
    Facility
  • The National Rural Youth Service Corps
  • The Animal and Veld Management Programme
  • The River Valley Catalytic Programme and
  • Programmes to revitalise rural towns and villages.

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Rural Development Framework (contd)
  • Specific Objectives
  • Enable successful land reform that promotes
    agricultural development, increased production
    and food security
  • Put in place models and frameworks such as the
    Wagon Wheel and broader Rural Economy
    Transformation Philosophy to illustrate synergy,
    internal alignment and resource capacity to
    ensure inclusive development in rural areas
  • Promote good governance and democratisation with
    emphasis placed on accountability and shared
    benefits in the transformation of rural
    societies and,
  • Support creation of a sustainable environment,
    taking cognisance of the rural conditions and the
    interaction between peoples wellbeing and places
    they live.
  • Intended Outcomes
  • Creation of Vibrant, equitable and sustainable
    rural communities
  • An overall increase in the per capita income and
    well-being of the poorest 40 of rural South
    Africans and
  • Substantial increases in rural employment,
    household food security, literacy and skills base
    of rural residents.

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Rural Development Framework (contd)
  • Persons and Tenure Spaces to be Targeted All of
    the countrys rural spaces, especially Rural
    residents living in Communal Areas, Commercial
    Farming Areas, rural towns and villages, small
    producers, women, youth, the rural poor and
    land-short.

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