Refers to either subsistence farmers (but who will also produce for the market on an opportunistic basis from time to time), or small-holder farmers who rely primarily on family labor for production for the market. Peasant farmers are to be distinguished from commercial farmers who produce exclusively for the market and rely primarily on hired labor. In the South African context, examples of peasant farmers include the frontier Afrikaner farmers of the colonial era, and the aboriginal African quasi-sharecroppers of the colonial era (prior to the passage of the 1913 Land Act).