ABSTRACT
In 1994, the African National Congress (ANC) took power in South Africa under the leadership of Nelson Mandela, formally ending decades of state-sponsored discrimination. Among a wide range of exclusionary policies during the Apartheid era were restrictions on the ownership of farm land by non-whites outside of the homelands or Bantustans (leaving only 13% of the country’s land for the majority black population). This led to the complete domination of commercial agriculture by the white population, particularly in the Western Cape Province, an area often thought of as the historical hearth of white farming. Of all of South Africa’s provinces, agriculture in the Western Cape is the most commercialized and export oriented (Moseley, 2007a).
