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11 Land redistribution in South Africa: the property clause revisited 29 By Lungisile Ntsebeza After being marginalized for most of the 12 years of our democracy, the land question seems to be getting some attention from the democratic state. In his State of the Nation address delivered on 3 February 2006, President Thabo Mbeki announced that the Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs would, during this year (2006), review the following: • The willing seller, willing buyer principle; • The land acquisition models and possible manipulation of land prices; and • The conditions under which foreigners buy land. However, he did not elaborate, save to state in rather ambiguous and vague terms that the above will be done in line with international norms and practices. The President also made an important point about the importance of aligning the Provincial Growth and Development Strategies (PGDS) and the Integrated Development Plans (IDP) of municipalities to the land redistribution component of the land reform programme. He further pointed to the proper use of the funds that have been made available for the productive use of the land. It is worth recalling that the above statements by the President come barely seven months after the historic four-day Land Summit which was held in Johannesburg in July last year (2005). In one important respect, the State President’s pronouncements were reflective of some of the key resolutions of the summit. The summit was organised by the Department of Land Affairs with limited involvement of various civil society organisations and some leading academics and researchers. The event was attended by more than a thousand people. I was greatly privileged not only to attend the Land Summit, but to facilitate and report back on one of the five commissions, the commission dealing with the vexed issue of land redistribution in this country. In this role, I gained access to some interesting documentation and engaged in facilitating debates and discussions around some of the key challenges to land redistribution in South Africa from a wide spectrum of often emotionally charged participants: from representatives of organised white commercial farmers, AgriSA to participants from the Young Communists and the Landless People’s Movement (LPM). At this Summit, far reaching resolutions were taken, and later adopted. For example, in my commission on land redistribution, there was overwhelming support that: • the state should be proactive and be the driving force behind land redistribution; • the willing seller, willing buyer principle should be rejected; • the state should have the right of first refusal on all land sales; • land reform should benefit the poor, particularly women, farm workers and youth; and • land should be expropriated. Similar radical resolutions from the other four commissions were adopted. In many ways, the state is responding to a range of criticism and pressures. From the late 1990s civil society organisations consistently criticised the emerging policy direction, and 29 This is an adaptation of a lecture presented in August 2005 as part of the Harold Wolpe Lecture Series organised by the Centre for Civil Society at the University of KwaZulu Natal in Durban. I’m very grateful to Patrick Bond, the Director of the Centre for permission to publish aspects of the lecture. 123
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training capacity. Management and a
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Does this herald a wave of wider ra
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The upward escalation in FDI flows
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least 50,000 Mozambicans. This invo
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Zimbabwe’s trade relations and th
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