Department%20of%20Rural%20Development%20and%20Land%20Reform

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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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