This thesis is a detailed account of Zimbabwe's controversial fast-track land reform programme. Zimbabwe's land reform history has been discussed extensively, with a focus on land redistribution. The fast-track land reform programme transferred eleven million hectares of land from 4 000 white commercial farmers to 51 543 landless peasant families. The thesis begins by offering some land reform theories and gives an overview of the land question in Southern Africa. This is followed by a discussion of Zimbabwe's land question from a historical perspective. Next is a periodised account of the successes and failures of land reform attempts made by the Zimbabwean government from independence in 1980 to 1998 when the fast-track land reform programme was conceived. Zimbabwe's political and economic situation at this time is significant. The context for fast-track land reform includes a discussion about the national question in Zimbabwe and the deteriorating status of white citizenship; the rise of Zimbabwe's liberation war veterans as a formidable force and the formation of the Movement for Democratic Change as a strong political party that was challenging, among others, the dominance of the ruling Zanu-PF party and its policies. The blueprint for fast-track land reform is discussed in order to contrast it to how the reform unfolded in practice. In this regard, the response of the international community to the violence and lawlessness that characterised fast-track land reform is worth mentioning, especially since it has bearing on how Zimbabweans are trying to cope with life in a radically altered physical and social environment, following the land reform exercise. The consequences of fast-track land reform are analysed in terms of development and the plight of Zimbabwe's farm workers; the internal displacement of hundreds of thousands of farm workers, white commercial farmers and others in Zimbabwe's countryside and whether or not fast-track land reform beneficiaries can successfully engage in agriculture to improve their standard of living. The Vumba and Burma Valley case study is illustrative of how fasttrack land reform was implemented and its socio-economic impact on Zimbabwe's poor and marginalised groups, for instance, female farm workers. The case study offers valuable insights about the survival strategies that ordinary people affected by the land reform exercise are adopting in order to cope with their new circumstances. Data was gathered from a focus group discussion (pilot study), in-depth semi-structured interviews and observation on three farms, as well as interviews with a few government officials, government documents and newspaper reports. The study is useful to countries that are planning or already implementing land reform, for example, South Africa.

O Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) a partir do seu processo educativo e do caminho percorrido na educação iniciou, no ano de 2013, a experimentação da proposta curricular por Complexos de Estudo, na Escola Base e nas Escolas Itinerantes, do MST, no Paraná. Para a construção da referida proposta, o Movimento toma como referência histórica a experiência e os fundamentos originais da escola única do trabalho iniciada pela classe trabalhadora em período revolucionário soviético. A referência da experiência soviética exigiu um trabalho de apropriação crítica para o contexto brasileiro. A prescrição curricular, denominada Plano de Estudos, em sua parte introdutória, contempla elementos de concepção e fundamentos como: a concepção de Educação e de Matriz formativa - detalhamento das Matrizes: Escola e vida, Escola e Matriz Formativa do Trabalho, Escola e Matriz formativa da Luta Social, Escola e Matriz Formativa da organização Coletiva, Escola e Matriz Formativa da Cultura e Escola e Matriz Formativa da História - orientações gerais sobre a forma escolar: a função pedagógica do meio, a organização política da escola, os tempos da escola, aspectos metodológicos específicos, sequenciamento e duração dos Complexos de Estudo e o processo de avaliação. Na sequência, o Plano de Estudos contempla os complexos, as disciplinas, as porções da realidade/categorias da prática presentes nos complexos, organizados por semestre e por ano. Diante do contexto apresentado, esta investigação propõe analisar o processo de experimentação da proposta curricular por Complexos de Estudo na Escola Base Colégio Estadual Iraci Salete Strozak, localizado no Assentamento Marcos Freire, no município de Rio Bonito do Iguaçu, Paraná. Como caminho metodológico, optamos pela abordagem qualitativa e as análises foram realizadas sob o olhar do marxismo. Foram realizadas pesquisas bibliográficas e pesquisa de campo, entrevistas semi-estruturadas e análise de documentos gerados no processo de construção da proposta. Inicialmente, neste texto, discorremos sobre o caminho percorrido pelo MST na luta por escolas e pela educação pública; apontando elementos do processo que levaram à compreensão, pelo Movimento, de que somente a luta pela terra não basta para a efetivação da Reforma Agrária. Em seguida, discutem-se alguns elementos da Pedagogia do Movimento, a concepção de educação e os objetivos para a educação desse Movimento Social, as matrizes formativas e o potencial de transformar a escola a partir de uma proposta pedagógica que tenha esses elementos como orientadores. Apresentam-se ainda, os fundamentos originais dos Complexos de Estudo em sua origem histórica e de concepção. Discute-se acerca das transformações e inovações curriculares, o currículo como escolarização, como reprodução social e apresenta-se a estrutura da Proposta Curricular por Complexos de Estudo. Adiante, mostra-se como ocorreu o experimento na Escola Base Iraci Salete Strozak. Nesse momento, propomos dialogar sobre as transformações na organização do trabalho pedagógico, discorrendo sobre os elementos da proposta que estão sendo experimentados e as transformações percebidas até momento desta pesquisa. Ainda, abordamos a questão da formação dos educadores, desafios e avanços encontrados pela escola neste âmbito e, possíveis implicações para o experimento. / The Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) from its educational process and the path taken in education, started in the year 2013, with an experimental curricular proposal by Complexes of study the School Base and the Itinerant Schools, the MST, in Paraná state. For the construction of this proposed curriculum, the movement takes the historical background and the experience of the original foundations of the single school of labor started by the working class in revolutionary Soviet period as a training proposal and school organization that comes close to the creation of collective subjects, fighters and builders of a new society and sociopolitical objectives to this social movement. The Soviet experiment reference required a work of a critical appropriation for the Brazilian context. The curriculum prescription, called Study Plan, in its introduction, includes elements of design fundamentals like: the Education Eesign and Training Matrix; Matrix detailing: School and Life, School and Labor Formative Matrix, School and Social Struggle Formative Matrix, School and Collective Organization Formative Matrix, School and Culture Formative Matrix and School and History Formative Matrix; general school guidelines: a pedagogical function of the environment, the school's political organization, school times, specific methodological aspects, sequencing and duration of Complexes of Study and the evaluation process. The Study Plan contemplates the complexes, the disciplines, the portions of reality / practice categories present in complexes, organized by semester and year, i. e., from 6th to 9th grade in elementary school. Given the the presented context, this research aims to analyze the process of testing the proposed curriculum for the Complexes of Study in Primary School of Iraci Salette Strozak State School, located in the Marcos Freire Settlement, in Rio Bonito do Iguaçu in Paraná state. As a methodological approach, we chose the qualitative approach and analysis were conducted under the Marxism perspective. Library research and field research, semi-structured interviews and analysis of documents generated in the process of construction of the proposal were made.Initially, in this paper, we discus about the path followed by the MST in the fight for schools and public education; highlighting elements of the process which led to the understanding, by the Movement, of which only the struggle for land is not enough for the realization of Agrarian Reform. Then discuss whether some elements of Pedagogy of the Movement, the concept of education and the goals for education that Social Movement, the training matrices and the potential to transform the school from a pedagogical proposal that has these elements as guiding. They present also the original foundations of Complexes Study in its historical origin and design. Is discussed about the changes and curriculum innovations, curriculum as schooling as social reproduction and presents the structure of Curriculum Proposal by Complex of Study. Forth, it is shown how the experiment occurred in basis School Iraci Salette Strozak. At this point, we propose a dialogue on the transformations in the organization of pedagogical work, discussing the elements of the proposal that are being experienced and the changes already perceived. Still, we address the issue of formation of educators and also elements relating to the challenges andadvancements encountered by the school in this area, and possible implications for the experiment.

O Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) a partir do seu processo educativo e do caminho percorrido na educação iniciou, no ano de 2013, a experimentação da proposta curricular por Complexos de Estudo, na Escola Base e nas Escolas Itinerantes, do MST, no Paraná. Para a construção da referida proposta, o Movimento toma como referência histórica a experiência e os fundamentos originais da escola única do trabalho iniciada pela classe trabalhadora em período revolucionário soviético. A referência da experiência soviética exigiu um trabalho de apropriação crítica para o contexto brasileiro. A prescrição curricular, denominada Plano de Estudos, em sua parte introdutória, contempla elementos de concepção e fundamentos como: a concepção de Educação e de Matriz formativa - detalhamento das Matrizes: Escola e vida, Escola e Matriz Formativa do Trabalho, Escola e Matriz formativa da Luta Social, Escola e Matriz Formativa da organização Coletiva, Escola e Matriz Formativa da Cultura e Escola e Matriz Formativa da História - orientações gerais sobre a forma escolar: a função pedagógica do meio, a organização política da escola, os tempos da escola, aspectos metodológicos específicos, sequenciamento e duração dos Complexos de Estudo e o processo de avaliação. Na sequência, o Plano de Estudos contempla os complexos, as disciplinas, as porções da realidade/categorias da prática presentes nos complexos, organizados por semestre e por ano. Diante do contexto apresentado, esta investigação propõe analisar o processo de experimentação da proposta curricular por Complexos de Estudo na Escola Base Colégio Estadual Iraci Salete Strozak, localizado no Assentamento Marcos Freire, no município de Rio Bonito do Iguaçu, Paraná. Como caminho metodológico, optamos pela abordagem qualitativa e as análises foram realizadas sob o olhar do marxismo. Foram realizadas pesquisas bibliográficas e pesquisa de campo, entrevistas semi-estruturadas e análise de documentos gerados no processo de construção da proposta. Inicialmente, neste texto, discorremos sobre o caminho percorrido pelo MST na luta por escolas e pela educação pública; apontando elementos do processo que levaram à compreensão, pelo Movimento, de que somente a luta pela terra não basta para a efetivação da Reforma Agrária. Em seguida, discutem-se alguns elementos da Pedagogia do Movimento, a concepção de educação e os objetivos para a educação desse Movimento Social, as matrizes formativas e o potencial de transformar a escola a partir de uma proposta pedagógica que tenha esses elementos como orientadores. Apresentam-se ainda, os fundamentos originais dos Complexos de Estudo em sua origem histórica e de concepção. Discute-se acerca das transformações e inovações curriculares, o currículo como escolarização, como reprodução social e apresenta-se a estrutura da Proposta Curricular por Complexos de Estudo. Adiante, mostra-se como ocorreu o experimento na Escola Base Iraci Salete Strozak. Nesse momento, propomos dialogar sobre as transformações na organização do trabalho pedagógico, discorrendo sobre os elementos da proposta que estão sendo experimentados e as transformações percebidas até momento desta pesquisa. Ainda, abordamos a questão da formação dos educadores, desafios e avanços encontrados pela escola neste âmbito e, possíveis implicações para o experimento. / The Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) from its educational process and the path taken in education, started in the year 2013, with an experimental curricular proposal by Complexes of study the School Base and the Itinerant Schools, the MST, in Paraná state. For the construction of this proposed curriculum, the movement takes the historical background and the experience of the original foundations of the single school of labor started by the working class in revolutionary Soviet period as a training proposal and school organization that comes close to the creation of collective subjects, fighters and builders of a new society and sociopolitical objectives to this social movement. The Soviet experiment reference required a work of a critical appropriation for the Brazilian context. The curriculum prescription, called Study Plan, in its introduction, includes elements of design fundamentals like: the Education Eesign and Training Matrix; Matrix detailing: School and Life, School and Labor Formative Matrix, School and Social Struggle Formative Matrix, School and Collective Organization Formative Matrix, School and Culture Formative Matrix and School and History Formative Matrix; general school guidelines: a pedagogical function of the environment, the school's political organization, school times, specific methodological aspects, sequencing and duration of Complexes of Study and the evaluation process. The Study Plan contemplates the complexes, the disciplines, the portions of reality / practice categories present in complexes, organized by semester and year, i. e., from 6th to 9th grade in elementary school. Given the the presented context, this research aims to analyze the process of testing the proposed curriculum for the Complexes of Study in Primary School of Iraci Salette Strozak State School, located in the Marcos Freire Settlement, in Rio Bonito do Iguaçu in Paraná state. As a methodological approach, we chose the qualitative approach and analysis were conducted under the Marxism perspective. Library research and field research, semi-structured interviews and analysis of documents generated in the process of construction of the proposal were made.Initially, in this paper, we discus about the path followed by the MST in the fight for schools and public education; highlighting elements of the process which led to the understanding, by the Movement, of which only the struggle for land is not enough for the realization of Agrarian Reform. Then discuss whether some elements of Pedagogy of the Movement, the concept of education and the goals for education that Social Movement, the training matrices and the potential to transform the school from a pedagogical proposal that has these elements as guiding. They present also the original foundations of Complexes Study in its historical origin and design. Is discussed about the changes and curriculum innovations, curriculum as schooling as social reproduction and presents the structure of Curriculum Proposal by Complex of Study. Forth, it is shown how the experiment occurred in basis School Iraci Salette Strozak. At this point, we propose a dialogue on the transformations in the organization of pedagogical work, discussing the elements of the proposal that are being experienced and the changes already perceived. Still, we address the issue of formation of educators and also elements relating to the challenges andadvancements encountered by the school in this area, and possible implications for the experiment.

Orientador: Ricardo Luis Coltro Antunes / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / O exemplar do AEL pertence a Coleção CPDS / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-07T02:30:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Duraes_BrunoJoseRodrigues_M.pdf: 705344 bytes, checksum: dc3185a640ee253ef90189d7c239f2e8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Resumo: O presente estudo tem como objetivo central evidenciar e problematizar as condições precárias de trabalho dos trabalhadores de rua da cidade de Salvador em dois contextos díspares, um do final do século XIX (no contexto da abolição da escravidão) e o outro da atualidade (século XXI), evidenciando importantes elementos de similitudes, bem como, de incongruências. O problema que norteia a investigação proposta divide-se em dois. Pelo lado do século XIX ensejou-se responder a seguinte indagação: As formas de trabalho de rua de Salvador do final do século XIX representaram uma forma de trabalho avançada em relação a forma de trabalho predominante à época, a escrava? Por outro lado, referente às formas de trabalho de rua da atualidade, indagou-se: Serão estas formas de trabalho de rua atuais atrasadas em relação às formas de trabalho assalariado/formal da moderna produção capitalista, representando assim um retrocesso?Para responder a estas questões nos valemos do recurso da historiografia para o século XIX, compondo o cenário de vida e de trabalho das ruas da cidade de Salvador de finais deste século, utilizando de documentos e recortes de jornais históricos. Outrossim, para a atualidade usamos de uma pesquisa qualitativa com 191 trabalhadores de rua espalhados em diversos pontos da cidade de Salvador, e também de notícias em jornais. Estas bases permitiram compor duas paisagens de uma mesma cidade, em situações diferenciadas, mas que retratam formas similares de trabalho, principalmente, por estarem todas localizadas nas ruas da capital baiana. No século XIX os/as trabalhadores/as de rua eram denominadas de ganhadores/ganhadeiras e se encontravam ordenados/as em cantos delimitados na cidade. Hoje, são conhecidos/as como camelôs, vendedores/as ambulantes, informais e estão situados em todos os cantos da cidade, ainda com regulamentações, perseguições e ordenações, e uma máxima vem a tona, a saber, a busca frenética e incansável pela sobrevivência / Abstract: This present study has the main objective of evidence and discuss the precarious labour conditions of street workers on the city of Salvador in two different contexts, one is the end of the XIXth century (in the context of slavery abolition) and other is the present time (XXIth century), evidencing important elements of similarities, as well as, the incongruence. The problem that guides this inquiry is divided in two pieces. On the XIXth century, it was tried to answer the following investigation: the forms of street labour on Salvador's streets at the end of XIXth century had represented an advanced form of labour in comparison with the predominant form of labour at that time, the slave labour? On the other hand, referring to the forms of street labour at the present time, it was inquired: Have these current forms of street labour been less developed in comparison with the forms of formal wage-earning labour on the modern capitalist production, therefore, it represents a retrocession? To answer these questions, it was necessary the use of XIXth century historiography, to compose the scene of everyday life and work on the streets of Salvador at the end of this century, using documents and clippings of historical periodicals. So, on present time, we use a qualitative research with 191 street workers in diverse locations around the city of Salvador, and also clippings of actual periodicals. These bases had allowed composing two pictures of the same city, in differentiated situations, portraying similar forms of labour, all of it located on Salvador¿s streets. In XIXth century, the street workers were called of earners and they were found in delimited corners around the city. Today, they are knowed as ambulants, informal peddlers and sellers, and they are situated in all the corners around the city, still constrained by regulations, persecutions and ordinances, and a principle comes up: the frantic and untiring struggle for survival / Mestrado / Mestre em Sociologia

Orientador: Claudio Henrique de Moraes Batalha / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-20T00:53:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Melo_CristianeDiasde_M.pdf: 3571067 bytes, checksum: 47d0767c95bf491edc2458901648eced (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: No ano de 1972, na Faixa de Fronteira de Santa Catarina, oeste do estado, foi criado o Projeto Fundiário, órgão regional ligado ao INCRA, com a finalidade de executar regularizações fundiárias em áreas de conflitos ou com problemas de títulos de propriedade. Diversas desapropriações de terra foram executadas na região, todavia, não em áreas de latifúndios, mas sim onde a maior parte dos estabelecimentos eram pequenas unidades rurais. Analisando algumas dessas desapropriações, a posse, uma prática costumeira entre os homens pobres daquela região em períodos anteriores, é revelada como alternativa e estratégia de acesso à terra que permanece na década de 1970, sendo legalmente reconhecida pela lei vigente, o Estatuto da Terra. Estimulados pelas regularizações, em 1980, trabalhadores rurais sem-terra ocuparam uma área particular com cerca de 2.800 hectares, onde nenhuma atividade agrícola estava sendo desenvolvida. Tratava-se da fazenda Burro Branco, no município de Campo Erê. Esse fato passou a ser noticiado pela imprensa como uma invasão de terras. As concepções de direito à terra baseadas na posse estavam presentes entre os ocupantes que, juntamente com a necessidade de sobrevivência, assimilaram o preceito de que a terra deve estar nas mãos dos que nela trabalham. Preceito existente no próprio Estatuto que reconheia como legítima a terra ocupada por "cultura efetiva e morada habitual". No contexto de luta pela redemocratização do país, pelo fim da ditadura militar, essa ocupação e outras que estavam ocorrendo em diferentes regiões do Brasil foram ações isoladas, mas que começavam a tomar a forma de um movimento social. Em Santa Catarina, um incipiente Movimento dos Sem Terra se organizava nos primeiros anos da década de 1980. Por sua vez, existiam outras concepções com relação ao direito à terra. Os proprietários rurais defendiam fortemente seus direitos à propriedade. O Estado tinha suas políticas controversas, enquanto outros setores da sociedade tinham suas opiniões. A análise dessas diferentes posições relativas ao direito à terra levam-nos ao debate sobre a reforma agrária e como ela é concebida e praticada durante o período da ditadura militar no Brasil / Abstract: In 1972, the Brazilian Dictatorship created the Land Project to deal with irregular land tenure questions in the western border region of Santa Catarina state that abuts Argentina. The government's National Colonization and Agrarian Reform Institute (INCRA) established regional offices to carry out the project. Intended to resolve local conflicts over property rights, the agency sought to normalize and regulate property lines, farm sizes and agricultural activity in the region. The project initiated several land expropriations that mostly affected small farmers. Analysis of the expropriation process in the 1970s revealed the importance of squatting - effective land possession verses legal property holding - as a common cultural practice among the poor that eventually gained legitimacy through the project as an alternative strategy to gain access to land. By regulating the squatted areas as normal farm properties, the project influenced juridical interpretations of the Land Statute (ET), Brazil's prevailing land tenure legislation since the military took power in 1964. In the early 1980s, the normalization process stimulated landless agricultural labors and displaced farmers to occupy the abandoned, 2,800 hectare Burro Branco farm, located in the region's Campo Erê municipality. Denigrated in the press as a land invasion, the act generated a debate over the concept of land rights. For the region's landlords, the state had the duty to protect the property rights of title-holders. For the occupiers, however, landlords forfeited their rights to land when they failed to develop it. They proclaimed a human right to use the land to sustain life; they insisted that land should be in the hands of those willing to work it. Their defenders argued that the ET itself recognized occupation as legal by making the establishment of "effective culture and eventual place of living" defining characteristics of landholding. In the context of the fight for the redemocratization of Brazil and inevitable end of the Dictatorship, this occupation and others unfolded in different parts of Brazil as isolated actions that the media began to define as a social movement of the landless. In fact, the Santa Catarina occupiers joined with others to found the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) in 1984 / Mestrado / Historia Social / Mestre em História

In Suid-Afrika het die opkoms van die sosialistiese gedagte teen die einde van die negentiende eeu ook merkbare invloed op die staatshuishouding gehad. In die negentiende eeu was die ekonomiese wetgewing, hoofsaaklik onder invloed van die indiwidualisme volgens die leer van "Laissez- faire", daarop gerig om die maksimum welvaart te verkry deur vrye mededinging aan te moedig en te beskerm, en om privaat inisiatief sy gang te laat gaan. Daar het egter geleidelik 'n verandering in hierdie houding en beleid ingetree. Deur 'n verandering in die beskouing omtrent die einddoel van die menslike arbeid en sy ekonomiese bedrywigheid moes die staat uit sosiaal-ekonomiese oorwegings sekere seksies van die samelewing deur spesiale en beskermende wetgewing te hulp kom. Die ontwikkeling van die aandeel wat die staat geneem het in die beheer en bevordering van die welvaart van die boere in die Suid-Afrikaanse Republiek is ' n voorbeeld van die voorgenoemde omwenteling in die ekonomiese en bedryfslewe teen die einde van die vorige eeu. Die staat het aanvanklik weinig gedoen vir die bevordering en beheer van die onderhoudsboerdery. Later, met die veranderde boerderyekonomie, het staatshulp, staatsvoorligting en -beheer egter noodsaaklik geword. Gedurende die laaste jare van die Suid- Afrikaanse Republiek het die owerheid meer en meer verpligtings teenoor die boeregemeenskap aanvaar. Namate die staat groter hulp en diens verskaf het, na dié mate moes hy ook groter beheer uitoefen.

The South African wine industry faces unique challenges in the socio-economic development of its farm labourers due to its historical context and development over the past three centuries. A long history of malpractice, a lasting paternalistic mentality, and only partial compliance to regulations to reduce inequality and improve livelihoods for farm labourers hinders the success of industry-wide transformation. Despite studies regarding the current state of living and working conditions in the wine industry and types of socio-economic development needed for successful transformation, little research has been done to address whether these initiatives are creating a lasting impact on the well-being of labourers. Research on current intervention strategies aimed at empowering labourers must take into account the origin of wine in the Cape region, the legacy of Apartheid, and the current state of socio-economic inequality amongst wine industry workers. The purpose of this research is to provide a better understanding of how and to what degree initiatives and programmes designed for socio-economic development are actually making an impact within the industry. The central research question asks: “to what extent has socio-economic development initiatives aimed at the transformation of wine farm labourers influenced perceptions of well-being?” This research combines both document analysis and qualitative comparative case study methods in assessing the impact these initiatives have had on labourers’ perceptions and attitudes towards personal development and a better standard of living. At the end of the study, the researcher wants to know how the labourers perceive socio-economic initiatives; do they actually believe themselves has having gained increased levels of respect, dignity, and equality, and have these perceptions been impacted by current socio-economic initiatives?.

M.A. / The modern day approach towards community development is to facilitate a community-driven and self-sustaining development process. Development is a process by which the members of a society increase their personal and institutional capacities, mobilise and manage resources, produce sustainable and justly distribute improvements in their quality of life consistent with their aspirations. The reasons why farm workers in commercial agricultural communities are becoming involved in their own development; what motivates them; and the capacities they need to remain involved; are some of the areas that this study addresses. This study focuses on the labour-extensive and labour-intensive farming communities in the Boland/Swartland regions of the Western Cape Province. A purposeful non-probability sample was taken from five labourextensive and five labour-intensive commercial farming communities within a fifty kilometre radius of Wellington. Focus groups as method were used to interview the specifically selected respondents. Qualitative data was collected according to a participatory research method and a visualization technique was utilized to record the data. Some of the important results of this study indicate that the commercial farmer has to take an interest as an important resource and partner in the development of the farm worker's communties. The farmworker's communities are seeking support from the new democratic structures, the Transitional Rural Councils, to assist them with their development efforts. The process of developing ownership and taking responsability for one's own development, needs to be strengthened by including the farmworkers in the decision-taking process on farms regarding community development through structures like farm-forums or farm-committees.

MPH / Department of Public Health

Thesis (M. Sc. Agriculture (Agricultural Economics)) -- University of Limpopo, 2021 / The President of South Africa signed the National Minimum Wage Act, the amendment of both the Basic Conditions of Employment Act and Labour Relations Act on Friday, 23 November 2018. These Acts, which were with effect from 1 January 2019, oblige all employers to pay at least the national minimum wage of R20.00/hr. and the agricultural sector has been given an exemption to pay 90% respectively of the national minimum wage (Truter, 2018). Employers in the farming sector are expected to pay at least R18.00 per hour to farm workers. However, farmers are different in terms of their characteristics and farming capacities, and they hold different perceptions towards the revised 2018 agricultural minimum wage. According to Sechaba (2017), it is believed that there will always be different views on what constitutes a decent and acceptable minimum wage. This study investigated the perception of both smallholder and commercial farmers towards the 2018 agricultural minimum wage in Bushbuckridge Local Municipality of the Mpumalanga Province, South Africa. The study had three objectives; the first objective was to identify and describe the socio-economic characteristics of farmers, the second one was to assess the perception of farmers on the 2018 agricultural minimum wage and the third one was to analyse socio-economic factors influencing the perception of farmers towards agricultural minimum wage in Bushbuckridge Municipality. Purposive sampling was used to collect primary data from 160 smallholder and commercial farmers (Crop and Livestock) in Bushbuckridge Local Municipality (BLM). For empirical analysis the Multinomial Logistic Model was applied for data analysis based on information generated using the Likert scale and the two formulated assumptions; firstly, farmers do not have negative perceptions towards the 2018 agricultural minimum wage and lastly socioeconomic factors do not influence farmers’ perception towards the 2018 agricultural minimum wage. For empirical analysis, Multinomial logistic regression model was run on spss and the descriptive statistics was used to analyse the perception of famers based on the rank data from the Likert scale. Results from Multinomial regression analysis indicated that demographic factors such as number of hectares, household size, age, farming experience, marital status, and labour productivity were found to be significant vi (at 1, 5 and 10%) in distinguishing between pairs of groups and contribution, which they make to change the odds of being in one dependent variable group rather than the other. About 48.8% sampled farmers in Bushbuckridge Local Municipality showed negative perceptions towards the 2018 agricultural minimum wage and were not likely to comply with the 2018 agricultural minimum wage legislation in a sense that they had not been paying the prescribed agricultural minimum wage to farm workers. Those who had positive perceptions and were willing to comply were only 15.0% and those who were uncertain on whether to comply or not comply with the 2018 agricultural minimum wage were 36.2%. Therefore, it can be concluded from results that smallholder and commercial farmers perceive the agricultural minimum wage differently and with majority of them not willing to comply or pay the prescribed amount. Additionally, several factors influences the perception on whether farmers were likely to comply or not to comply by paying the prescribed minimum wage to farm workers, based on the 2018 agricultural minimum wage. Variables: number of hectares, household size, age, experience, marital status and minimum wage were found to be significant (at different significant levels 1, 5 and 10%) in determining whether farmers were more likely or less likely to comply and pay the 2018 agricultural minimum wage. These variables plays a key role in determining farmers’ decision to comply or not to comply with the 2018 agricultural minimum wage. However, gender, minimum wage for farmers, distance to market, access to mechanisation, co-operative membership, access to news, pensioner and educational status were found to be insignificant (at different significant levels 1%, 5% and 10%) at determining whether farmers were likely to comply or not comply with the 2018 agricultural minimum wage. Thus, it is recommended that farmers, regardless of their production scale should be consulted and given a fair platform to articulate their views during the process of policy formulation. Policy makers and government should refrain from using a blanket approach when formulating a policy and taking into consideration the issue of disparities in the agricultural sector, subsectors, regions and operational scale of farmers when discussing the agricultural minimum wage policy.