The South African land reform programme is implemented to redress land ownership patterns that resulted from Apartheid discriminatory laws. Whites expropriated land from Africans and, by so doing, usurped their livelihoods. The majority ANC government has been attempting to return not only the land, but also to restore the livelihoods from land ownership. The programme has been very slow to return land to the black majority, but some land has been returned. The programme has dismally failed to restore the livelihoods from land ownership, as most of the projects have failed to continue producing at all or at levels achieved by previous white landowners. The mentorship programme was created in order to increase the success of the land reform programme in delivering a livelihoods impact. We use a qualitative approach to evaluate the impact of this programme. Although beneficiaries of the mentorship programme perceived the programme posi