Surplus People Project (SPP)

Organization's activities

The Surplus People Project (SPP) was established in the 1980′s to publicise and support communities in the struggles against apartheid state forced removals. This culminated in the publication of the seminal five volume SPP reports documenting some of these forced removals. SPP emerged from the radical liberal tradition in South Africa and in the post-apartheid era, SPP’s focus shifted to support community struggles for agrarian transformation, including food sovereignty, equitable land ownership and alternatives to dominant models of production.