ANC no show: total disregard for land reform.
9 March 2015
Today, the Standing Committee on Economic Opportunities, Tourism and Agriculture held its deliberations on the Department of Agriculture's budget for the upcoming year - which includes their strategic focus of land reform. No ANC Member of the committee bothered to attend this budget meeting. A members core oversight responsibility is to interrogate departmental budgets, yet the ANC was a total no show.
The ANC spokesperson and permanent member of this standing committee, Ms Sharon Davids has on numerous occasions failed to fulfil her parliamentary responsibilities of attending Standing Committee meetings and today is another case in point. Yet Ms Davids is a vocal critic of this department and of land reform in particular in the Western Cape.
Should she attend these meetings, she may be aware that:
The Department has committed to a 70% land reform success rate within the next five years which would make the Western Cape a leader in land reform.