Farming support must switch to black smallholders: Focus on urban elite amounts to rural State Capture

John Matisonn

doi:10.14426/na.v92i1.2133

Farming support must switch to black smallholders

Focus on urban elite amounts to rural State Capture

Authors

John Matisonn

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14426/na.v92i1.2133

Keywords:

Farming, State Capture, South Africa, Growing agricultural jobs, Ethiopia

Abstract

Job creation in South Africa is an urgent and paramount project and one of the target areas has to be the agricultural sector. Other targeted economic sectors can deliver jobs for urban matriculants and graduates, but JOHN MATISONN argues farming and agro-processing have the potential to provide hundreds of thousands of new jobs for black citizens in rural areas without advanced education as well as for graduates.

Author Biography

John Matisonn

Journalist and author Matisonn began political reporting in 1974. He was foreign correspondent in Washington for the Rand Daily Mail and reported for National Public Radio in the US. He has been published in the New York Times, Financial Times, Washington Post, The Observer among others. After four years as a broadcast regulator in the Mandela administration, he became the UN’s Chairperson of the Electoral Media Commission in Afghanistan. He has published two books on South Africa’s political transition process.

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Published

06-04-2024

How to Cite

Matisonn, J. (2024). Farming support must switch to black smallholders: Focus on urban elite amounts to rural State Capture. New Agenda: South African Journal of Social and Economic Policy, 92(SI). https://doi.org/10.14426/na.v92i1.2133