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New thinking necessary on land reform

21 Nov 2011

A Codesa (Convention for a Democratic South Africa) on land reform is an increasing possibility, as more and more influential people realise that the current process will not have the desired outcome and that it can harm the country if not reconsidered, Sake24 reports.

Last week Rural Development and Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti told the Black Management Forum AGM that land could no longer be allocated in the current fashion.

Nkwinti said that in the future, government wanted to allocate land in the land-reform process to black commercial farmers, since agriculture is regarded as an enterprise.

Speaking to Sake24, Professor Mohammad Karaan, a member of the National Planning Commission (NPC) and the dean of the agricultural faculty at Stellenbosch University, aligned himself with people like Professor Shadrack Gutto, who chairs Unisa's Centre for African Renaissance Studies. Gutto believes that land reform needs to be renegotiated. Karaan said that a land Codesa should be held, but that it should not end up merely covering all the old familiar points of dispute.

Read the full article on www.fin24.com.