. Land and Tenure Reform: A key aspect of the land redistribution for this period was the restructuring of land reform products to address different types of land reform beneficiaries, namely: landless households, commercial and subsistence producers, expanding commercial smallholders and well established black commercial farmers. The categorisation shows the redirection of land reform to shift towards being responsive to the needs of the people. The closing of gaps in legislation for tenure on communal land in the former Homelands and commercial farms are issues that are long overdue.