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Land reform is a heavily contested issue the world over as reflected in the available literature, and it should be noted that any country that will or has embarked on land reform can rest assured of economic isolation. Zimbabwe is a good example, but there are crystal clear success stories (Cousins, 2010). There are also huge gaps in the available literature as far as land reform in South Africa is concerned. The available literature has concentrated on the total and expensive failure of land reform in South Africa and totally turned a blind eye to the success stories. The Eurocentric approach on failure and success was used as far as evaluating land reform is concerned. The capitalist ideology underscores the debate on land reform in Africa. The global powers have succeeded in imposing a liberal approach to land reform on African states, and characterised the programme as chaotic in Zimbabwe when the then Mugabe regime rejected the