• 'NEW' SETTLER OR 'OLD' TENANT? The 'origin-story' of South African inequality in distributive conflicts in land, labour and product markets

'NEW' SETTLER OR 'OLD' TENANT? The 'origin-story' of South African inequality in distributive conflicts in land, labour and product markets

: Cawe (A.)

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327pp., illus., paperback, Tracey McDonald Publishers, Johannesburg, 2026

ISBN: 9780639895048

 

Land remains one of the most emotive and symbolically powerful issues in Africa. This book traces the construction and reproduction of racial hierarchies in land, labour and product markets across South Africa's rural Eastern Cape over the past 300 years, reveals the origin stories of enduring rural economic conflicts, and challenges us to reckon with how the economic insecurity of rural life undermines attempts at redress and the promise of overcoming agrarian duality an inequality.

Ayabonga Cawe is a development economist, head of South Africa's International Trade Administration Commission, a sessional lecturer in the School of Economics and Finance at Wits University, and author of The economy on your doorstep.