Yup. Without proper training and support, land will not give dignity to the new farmers; it will effectively remove it. Unless said farmers can sell their land and buy property in the city.
From what I understand this is already happening and part of the problem. The govt. paid farmer X rand and then turned the land over to the people who immediately sold it back to said farmer for X - Y rand. Farmer got a nice payout, people took money and did whatever, taxpayer fitted the bill. Everyone is outraged that they still don't have land cause the stats don't change all that much.
The problem here is that farmers get paid more than what the farm is worth. Apart from this, I have no problem with farmers buying back their own land. But a record needs to be kept of this - you can't confiscate the same piece of land over and over.