OXFAM SOUTH AFRICA CALLS ON GOVERNMENT TO URGENTLY ADDRESS THE LAND ISSUE
Oxfam South Africa welcomes the tabling of the motion to consider the redistribution of the land which will be debated in the National Assembly tomorrow, Tuesday 27th February 2018. We see this as an opportune moment for government to correctly address the issue of land once and for all.
As OxfamSA, our support is made against the backdrop of our “Even it Up” global campaign that aims to end extreme inequality that threatens to undo much of the progress made over the past 20 years in tackling poverty as a direct consequence of the wrong political and economic choices, including on the land issue.
The recent national conference by the ruling ANC resolved that they will initiate amendments to the Section 25 of the Constitution in order to expropriate land without compensation. The land question in South Africa is by far the most emotive issue that cannot be postponed any further. It should have happened long time ago, if government was serious about dealing with glaring structural inequalities and poverty in the country.
We call on the ANC government to support the motion and move quick to address the issue of land dispossession. To address inherited injustices of the past, possible economic and political instability, OxfamSA calls upon the government of South Africa, through the will of its People, to introduce legislative measures for a Comprehensive Land Reform and Rural Transformation Programme
We say this because currently: