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...lack box and do not apply the innovations assencrypted in the box (ibid.: 124). Callon postulates that actors constantly negotiate their identities andstheir wishes during the process of translation (=-=Callon 1986-=-: 21, 227). These scripts (either scriptsstowards the macroproject, thus land reform, or the reinterpreted scripts by means of actor projects)srepresent the interests of the actors. Akrich, as cited i...

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...nd observations, these documents were usedsin triangulation where the findings of the one could be checked against the other. This enhanced thesvalidity of the data and the study. Thick descriptions (=-=Punch 2005-=-: 186), thus the context to conveysthe full picture were pursued. I tried to describe everything needed to know in order to understand thesfindings, and to describe the context of the research as de...

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...ociety at will. ANT also takes account of the end-users and theirsinfluence on technological changes (Hebinck 2001: 123) and refuse an analytical distinction betweensthe macro- and the microsocial (=-=Law 1992-=-: 5), thus it analyses and demystifies the power of thespowerful (Law 1992: 8). ANT has met severe criticism from social constructionist in that it attributes astechnology with basically the same capa...

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...tsartefacts, handling persons and ways of defining problems. The expert system can be informed by andsin turn inform and entrench the landscape and regime.sBusiness plan may be used as prescriptions (=-=Akrich and Latour 1992-=-: 259) to reach thesexperts ideal future. The concept of discursive formation could be used to understand why differentsactors interpret scripts and prescriptions differently. Actors within for examp...

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...s to mechanisation and modernisation ofsproduction. It includes a commodity-oriented emphasis on improving the productivity of land, labour,stechnology, and chemical inputs to prevent food shortages (=-=Lang and Heasman 2004-=-: 18-21).sKarumbidza also argues convincingly that a market friendly productionist approach wassadopted instead of a redistributionist approach (Karumbidza 2002: 29). Lahiff observed that thescurr...

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... A technological deterministic view which believe that technologies introduced (such assthese proposed in business plans) would be accepted and unadapted incorporated in daily activities issrejected (=-=MacKenzie and Wajcman 1999-=-: 3-27)14. I reject this reductivism of technologicalsdeterminism. The component of technological determinism that acknowledges that technology doesshave an effect on social relations is accepted.sVar...

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...titutional context for thesregimes. Socio-technical landscape, also described as the material culture (Rayner and Malones1998: xxxiii), involves inter alia institutions, infrastructures and values (=-=Rip and Kemp 1998-=-: 388). Itsinvolves policy discourses of the state such as technological progress and modernisation that targetsfurther development of specific technology trajectories (Hebinck 2001: 125). Consideri...

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...e) the behaviour of allssocial actors in the related sectors (Hebinck and Fay 2006: 4). An expert system cannot ignore orsdismiss peoples capacities and abilities to intervene and shape social life (=-=Arce and Long 2000-=-: xv).sAll actors, also those within an expert system, still do possess agency through which they can contestsand renegotiate events (Hebinck and Fay 2006: 4). This study should therefore not only foc...

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...xpert system. Giddens define ansexpert system as a system of technical accomplishment or professional expertise that organise largesareas of material and social environments in which we live today (=-=Giddens 1990-=-: 27). Hebinck andsFay add that such a system can shape and order the agricultural sector by a set of practices. Thesespractices may include the identification of problems (at least, what the experts ...

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...e popular aftersdemocracy, this time around to redress the wrongs of the past. Other redress mechanisms, for examplesclass-based mechanisms, instead of race-based seem to be argued conveniently away (=-=Ndletyana 2008-=-:s95). If innovative solutions like land identification through area-wide mapping are to be used andssubdivision on such areas do realise, it would be a pity if such areas are reserved again according...

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... I did not use predetermined categories and classifications,sthus behaviour was observed as it unfolded naturally.s21 The prescriptions for land redistribution projects towards individuals or groups (=-=DLA 1997-=-) are not so blatantsand expressed towards commercial principles than those of farm worker equity schemes. Therefore it was logicsto investigate if the experts do also judge these projects (projects t...