DA hosts successful virtual Land Summit
18 August 2021
Note to Editors: Please find attached English and Afrikaans soundbites Cilliers Brink MP, as well as a link to the full Land Summit here.
Today the DA hosted a successful virtual Land Summit with inputs from various stakeholders from the agriculture sector, civil society and interest groups regarding issues related to the agriculture sector, land reform, land expropriation without compensation, rural safety as well as farm attacks and murders.
Anthea Jeffrey, the Head of Policy Research at the Institute of Race Relations, and Martin van Staden, a legal specialist at Sakeliga, debated property as a Constitutional right and came to the conclusion that without property rights South Africans will not flourish economically.
This was underscored by the various farmers that joined the Summit: David Rakgase; Thembakazi Gwatyu who represented the Gwatyu community; and Pieter Swart. They all highlighted that without title deeds financial investment into their farms are near impossible which makes anything more than mere subsistence farming very difficult. These farmers’ passions for their land and their concern for South Africa’s food security really shone through.