Author and activist says corruption and failure to speed up land restitution to blame
Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi is the author of a book about SA’s land reform failures. Picture: KEVIN SUTHERLAND
“I am personally very sympathetic with the ANC position during the transition. That is where my sympathy ends. After that, there is a period in which we acquired enough political power, military power and police power. But what did we do? That is where we squandered freedom and also squandered the possibility of freedom for young people coming after us,” Ngcukaitobi said.
He said one of government’s land reform programmes was restitution, designed to ensure 5-million South Africans who were forcefully removed from their land as a result of the Native Land Act get their land back or receive compensation. Ngcukaitobi said following the negotiations that led to SA’s first democratic elections in 1994, people wanted to know what settlement the ANC and other political parties reached with the former white government on the issue of land reform.
Ngcukaitobi said the former president explained that the liberation movement negotiators were not in a position of power.
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