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Land Reform Alternatives To Be Presented At Land Indaba

Land Reform Alternatives To Be Presented At Land Indaba

Date: 2015-03-27
Farmers from all corners of Kwazulu Natal, belonging to the provinces agricultural union Kwanalu, met this week in Pietermaritzburg to discuss and formulate possible sustainable and feasible land reform solutions.

The Road to Meaningful and Sustainable Land Reform meeting, held at the Royal Agricultural Show Grounds, was organised by Kwanalu on behalf of their members in response to President Jacob Zuma's agricultural bid in his state of the nation address last month in which he proposed 50/50 partnerships and 12000ha or two farm caps on land ownerships as the way forward for land reform.

The farmers, together with the board of Kwanalu and representatives from farming associations, commodity groups and their affiliates from all areas of KZN gathered together in a full day workshop to discuss and debate potential best practice models as sustainable, working and fair answers to land reform to be presented at the meeting on Friday.

"Between 1994 and 2014 the Government spent a staggering R70 billion on land reform projects and we have nothing to show for it. We need to move forward and embrace transformation for the sake of our and future generations' futures and us as farmers are the best people to ask to find these solutions to land reform. Each of us needs to stand up and accept the challenge to make a difference," President of Kwanalu, Mike Black told farmers at the onset of the meeting.

"We need to start getting involved. We farmers have spent our time trying to keep our heads above water and have left land reform issues to the Department of Agriculture, politicians and our agricultural associations to sort out," Stockil told the farmers.

"The Government are the facilitators of the process, we farmers are the ones with the expertise and so we need to get involved at grass roots levels to figure out how we can improve people's lives," Henderson said.

"I can now tell the Minister Nkwinti at the National Land Indaba that the 50/50 proposal will not work and that we have other best practices which already exist and are successful options to land reform and transformation," La Marque said.