The South African government has a dilemma: it is constitutionally and morally compelled to redress the past injustices of land ownership, but, by its own determination, its agrarian reform programme will fail if it does not also achieve economic success. For that reason, agrarian reform in SA was more than the transfer of land, Deputy Agriculture and Land Affairs Minister Dirk du Toit told a media briefing at the start of a tour of land-reform projects near Bloemfontein at the weekend. “We have to ask: Did we contribute to poverty reduction?” he said.