The CRDP is a strategic priority within the current Medium Term Strategic Framework (MTSF) of government. It seeks to enable people in rural areas to take control of their own destiny with the support of government through optimal use and management of natural resources in order to achieve creation of vibrant and sustainable rural communities. It hinges on a three- pronged strategy of coordinated and integrated broad-based agrarian transformation, rural development, and an improved land reform. Land reform entails transfer of land to the previously disadvantaged individuals and communities in order to redress the inequalities in the patterns of land distribution that resulted from a long period of dispossession and racial segregation under the apartheid government policies.