Thandi blazes trail for cooperative land reform model

Ronnie Morris
Business Report ,
25th January 2004.

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A successful model for land reform developed in the Western Cape has been replicated in two other provinces and is being studied by US and Russian observers.

This model, called the Thandi model after a farm in Elgin where black farm workers took ownership of a wine and fruit business, is regarded as a world first, according to land reform consultant Johan Hamman.