n his 2023 book, , agri economist Wandile Sihlobo asserts that South Africa has not been successful in closing the productivity and inequality gap between white and black farmers. His book affirms that these disparities are a consequence of the historic laws that privileged white farmers. The notion of ‘two agricultures’, which refers to a duality problem, was first raised by political analyst Merle Lipton in 1976 in the
