The demand for land reform in South Africa is linked to the unmended repercussions of South Africa's brutal history of a settler economy and apartheid and is seen by some as linked to nationalism, national identity and righting the wrongs of the past. Episode #4 of The Power Shift: Decolonising Development explores the land debate in South Africa and its links to national identity, nationalism and the long run and brutal impact of apartheid. Andries talks about the different positions being taken on the land debate and identifies a possible alternative approach. He sees this alternative as one which might give South Africa the chance to build a future without denying the past, which is a danger of some of the polarised positions being taken in the land debate currently. In a wide-ranging conversation, Andries covers nation building, the trap of ‘best whiteism’, the need for social solidarity and local action, and how White people engaging in anti-racist and decolonisation spaces need to work on themselves and take personal responsibility. He ends by providing listeners and viewers with simple and doable advice which we can all implement in our daily lives – swapping ‘we’ for ‘I’ when talking about the progressive changes that we would like to see in the world. This ensures that we are ‘showing up’ honestly, rather than assuming membership of an unarticulated collective.Prof Andries du Toit is Director of PLAAS (Institute for Politics, Land and Agrarian Studies at the University of the Western Cape), South Africa’s leading research institute exploring land, chronic poverty, structural inequality and the rural economy. If you’re interested to find out more about Andries’s work, take a look here: LinkedIn, PLAASRecommended resources:Best White and other Anxious Delusions (Rebecca Davis)Yako, St J Page. 1972. The Contraction and Enclosure of the Land in Kavanagh, Robert, and Z S Qangule, The Making of a Servant & Other Poems Translated from Xhosa. Ophir. (Read the poem here)Du Toit, Andries. 2019. Whose Land Question? Policy Deliberation and Populist Reason in the South African Land Debate. PLAAS Working Paper 60. PLAAS. Land Reform - what we really should be talking about and why. Blog 11 July 2022Ferguson, James. 2021. Presence and Social Obligation: An Essay on the Share. Prickly Paradigm Press Chipkin, Ivor. 2022. The Idea of South Africa is Blowing in the Wind - Daily Maverick 11 October 2022 Ngcukaitobi, Tembeka. 2021. Land Matters: South Africa’s Failed Land Reforms and the Road Ahead. Penguin Books.Discover:ManKind Project South Africa

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