Against a context of declining sugar output in South Africa as a whole, the sugar industry in the Nkomazi Municipality of Mpumalanga Province has increased its share of the South African market. It has achieved this despite the transfer of at least 25 per cent of land growing sugarcane into...

This paper focuses on the ways in which the Mpumalanga sugar industry has been transformed by land reform processes and discusses the impact that these processes have had on land reform beneficiaries and on the industry more broadly. Having emerged from apartheid under a dualistic agrarian...