13th Congress Political Programme of the SACP 2012 - 2017

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are the second most important source of income, contributing between 10%
and 20%. The third is income from some sort of agricultural activity, also
estimated at about 10% and 25% in some areas.
The integrated rural development programme has been one of the most
and the picture seems to be very uneven. These kinds of interventions will
never succeed unless they are based on a fundamental transformation of
agricultural sectors and the former Bantustans?
Some of the Key Political Challenges
The SACP’s own campaigns, especially the land and agrarian transformation
campaign, provide a key platform to achieve our key strategic objectives in
the transformation of our countryside, including the following key goals:
The need for an overarching rural development strategy to bridge the
divide between the ‘white’ countryside and the former Bantustans,
grounded in accelerating land and agrarian transformation
The basis of such an industrial strategy for the countryside should
be accelerated access to productive land for household based
subsistence in both, and cutting across, the dualistic rural economic
enclaves
Crucial in all this is the mobilisation of the social motive forces for
we will ensure that we mobilise our communities – building people’s
land committees to drive land and agrarian transformation, Driving
accumulation path continues to characterise much of our social and
economic reality. One of its major manifestations is the persistence, and
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