Chapter 4 Learning from experience: An overview of the evidence: Reviewing Restitution, LRAD and Commonage from a SIS perspective

4 LRAD, Commonage and share equity

With the extension of SDC's mandate to consider the SIS needs for LRAD and Commonage projects, it became clear that, as with Restitution, we needed to adopt a historical perspective. The Strategy needed to address how to provide support to people who have obtained land under the Redistribution programme since its inception. As has been sketched in Chapter 3, the LRAD sub- programme was introduced in August 2001 to revamp the troubled Redistribution programme. Between 1994 and 1997, Redistribution involved qualifying households who earned less than R1 500 per month accessing a SLAG of R15 000 per household. The grant was increased to R16 000 per household in 1998. The programme was two years in development and driven by a task team of DLA and NDA officials formed in 1999. It drew on World Bank experiences of market-based land reform in Colombia and Brazil. Table 4.12: Principal differences between SLAG and LRAD projects Source: DLA 2006a:24.