Fellow fighters what is out take. Extract from National Assembly Discussion Base Document. Land and Agrarian Revolution Land in South Africa is stolen property. No people can claim freedom without access and control over their land. Economic Freedom in our lifetimes is primarily defined by land redistribution. South Africa is in total a country of 123 million hectares. The 1913 Land Act, which legalized the land theft of Africans gave 87% of land to white settlers and Africans were forced to 13% of the land. In reality, today, less than 1% of the population own more than 80% of the land. In concrete terms only 40 000 white families, trusts and individual own 80% of South African land. We are a nation of 53 million people! It is known that about 22 million Africans need land desperately. In the past 20 years the ruling party has impose a land policy called “willing buyer- willing seller”, based on the Kempton Park compromise, which finds expression in section 25 of the constitution, called the property clause. This clause gives protection of property rights to those who stole the land of the Africans and says land must be bought. There are debates about whether expropriation is allowed by the clause. Truth is it will take more than 100 years to buy back only 30% of the land if we follow government land policy. In 20 years only 8% of the land bought at R50 billion! EFF asks why buy stolen property? It’s illegal and immoral. As things stands there is no policy or programme to return redistribute land and support people on land for realization of a new land and agrarian reality. EFF must lead the way. The people assemblies must consider the following proposals. 1. The RPA confirm Land Expropriation without compensation as the only acceptable solution and that EFF embark of campaigns to realize this PILLAR. 2. That EFF introduce debate and Bill in parliament to amend section 25 of the constitution to ensure “Land Expropriation, without compensation”. 3. Should the National Assembly reject the “Land Expropriation without Compensation Bill”, that EFF insists on a Referendum to get the views of South Africans on “Should we buy back our stolen land?” 4. That EFF call a national conference on land to discuss these matters in 2015. 5. That a mass ‘Back to Land” campaign be undertaken, were the land claiming communities re-occupy their land through mass action led by EFF. 6. That EFF support all actions of the communities where they occupy land and also to support communities to resist evictions from land and houses. The land belongs to the people! 7. That EFF encourage our people to engage in urban agriculture and food gardening activities, every school and every house must have a vegetable garden.
Posted on: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 09:29:32 +0000
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