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HSRC PressPublished Time: HSRC PressPages: 320South African agriculture has always been ideologically contested, because of its relationship with controversial land ownership issues. This book takes the question of farm workers’ fortunes beyond the land debate, to consider their current and future livelihoods. The book argues that the question of farm workers needs to be understood as | Notes cơ N Ó cứ CD s 2 o T3 ỌỊ 2 1. The nine localities are Jagersfontein Fauresmith Luckhoff Philippolis and Ladybrand in the Free State and Colesberg Philipstown Ritchie and Hopetown in the Northern Cape see map on page xii . 2. Corvée services are the exchange of labour time on the lord s land for the right to work a parcel of land. In South Africa this was known as labour tenancy. 3. The use of coercion to secure a cheap labour force in the early capitalist phase of South African agriculture should not be regarded as unusual. In Canada Lalibertz Satzewich 1999 and California Walsh 1999 the government resorted to the withdrawal of farm workers resources in these cases welfare payments to force them to enter the labour market. 4. This refers to Section 10 of the Bantu Laws Amendment Act of 1952. 5. Information about the reasons for changes in employment patterns was not specifically requested. Rather farmers volunteered their opinions in unstructured discussion. 6. It is not entirely clear whether the two earlier documents should be considered as official rural strategies in their own right. The ISRDS explicitly refutes the claim that South Africa does not have a rural strategy DPLG 2000 16 . But the ISRDP then asserts that these earlier strategies were discussion documents and were not confirmed as the government strategy for rural development. 7. These nodal districts are Kalahari-Kgalagadi Northern Cape North West Province Central Karoo Western Cape Ukhahalamba Eastern Cape Chris Hani Eastern Cape OR Tambo Eastern Cape Alfred Nzo Eastern Cape Ugu southern KZN Umzinyathi central KZN Zululand northern KZN Umkhanyakude northern KZN Sekhukhune Mpumalanga Limpopo and Eastern Municipality Limpopo . 8. This information comes from an interview conducted in September 2002 by Anja Benseler. 9. The work was undertaken by Prof. Retha du Plessis of the University of the Free State and Rev. Carin van Schalkwyk of the NG Church in Bergmanshoogte Philippolis. Their social .