The Land Question in South Africa by Dr Motsoko Pheko
On Thursday, 22 November 2018 the Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute (TMALI) hosted a public dialogue themed the Land Question; lessons, opportunities & challenges which was delivered Dr Motsoko Pheko.
Dr Pheko is a historian, political scientists, lawyer, theologian, writer, Publisher and researcher. He is a former member of the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa.
The struggle for independence in South Africa was triggered and shaped around the reversing unjust, inhuman dispossession and alienation of Africans from the means of production. For Dr Motsoko Pheko, “South African land was never returned to its African owners”, in spite of the initial expropriation in 1913 having been in “violation of the principles of international law regarding legal title”. Section 25 (7) ignored nemo dat quad habet and as such created an injustice and an unfairness now being protected under the guise of the rule of law. To the extent that section 25 remains in place, colonial injustice and the subjugation of Africans can be guaranteed to persist, while poverty, inequality and employment will continue to undermine accumulation among Africans.
Dr Pheko was joined by Professor Mogobe Ramose as a discussant, he is currently a Research Professor at the Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University and has also written extensively in the land question.
This speech also is applicable to Namibia. Why Africa doesn't speak with one voice baffles me.
Very elaborate speaker.I would ask him the question of common African language What’s his opinion?
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This man is the greatest president that this country never had.I wonder where we would have been with this giant at the helm.
Powerful speech son of the stolen land called Azania
Powerful and absolutely timely speech. Everyone who desperately needs to here this is no where to be found, busy listening to false narratives by settlers.
I doubt that there are any of the charterists who would argue this matter so eloquently.
We must play this in schools and in front our children and understand what Baba is saying.
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The land must be restored to its rightful owners.
Nothing can be more liberating than quality education. If the foul ANC government stops rolling out RDP's and instead direct those finds towards free tertiary education until honours degree level, South Africa would have paved a smooth way through which it can become one of the richest countries in the world in the shortest time possible. Nevertheless, we want our land back - in totality!!! On that note, the entire FREE STATE province and parts of present-day Afrika Borwa, belongs to Lesotho.
Educated people are threat to ANC existence
This is a beautiful conversation
The essential question, however, remains "how" land reform might be undertaken while maximising the benefits of the existing system of land ownership. Asking probing questions and exposing false assertions is essential before any serious discussion of land reform can begin; in other words, critical questioning and fact-based debunking are imperative.
It's simple: PUT THEM OUT BC THEY ARE NOT UBUNTU
I hold the same view, 🙏❤️!!.
Vasco DA Gama saw black Africans in Limpopo in 1495 and he saw that they had gold and iron. Jan van Riebeek knew that but he never found it
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The is no xhosa or zulu Protestant missionaries arrived in South Africa in the 1820s. Their primary goal was to convert Africans to Christianity. For them the Bible was the source of revelation. To give Africans direct access to it, it had to be translated. The problem was there was no written language, so written languages and their geographic reach had to be defined. Consequently, missionaries asked themselves: are the speech forms of the Zulu and Xhosa and of the chiefdoms and clans in between them - such as Mfengu, Thembu, Bhaca, Mpondo, Mpondomise, Hlubi, Cele, Thuli, Qwabe - similar enough to represent a single language into which the Bible can be translated, or do they represent multiple languages? I suggest that the answer to this question changed over time for a host of reasons, perhaps most importantly due to the influence of African interpreters. Missionaries depended on interpreters, who had their own ideas about language. The decision to think of isiZulu and isiXhosa as two separate languages can to some extent be traced back to these interpreters. Education played the crucial role in people identifying with these languages. It involved Africans and non-Africans, as lawmakers, superintendents of education and teachers, promoting isiZulu and isiXhosa as part of “mother tongue” education in various school settings between the middle of the 1800s and the last decade of the 1900s.
Mbeki grew in rural areas he had enough of being a farm boy,he mus not disturb us in our quest of getting back our land.He has a problem of explaining to white handlers why he failed to suppress us
Research Julius Malema The Visionary.
Our land was taken by a stroke of a pen ,why must we buy it back from Mbekis friends, let us use the pen as well
Amazing how, even seemingly educated people, will be riled up when they are told about "free stuff"....
Black Sough Africans,please!!Stop being subjective when it comes to political issues,especially ANC'supporters,if u really want to see the black-majority in South Africa living above poverty-line u first have to be realistic,everyone who understands South Africa and its politics,knows that ANC has indeed sold-out South Africans(Black-Africans),ANC is not a pan-africanistic political party,it only serves a puppetry role to maintain white supremacy,ANC undermines the purpose for which Pan-Africanism was established.
Thank you - Land question? What land question? Our black people have land - The government has purchased more than 4000 farms which they can't get transferred to their prospective owners because of internal disputes among the intended recipients - Furthermore, there are about 17-million hectares of land in the old "homelands" which the ANC had nationalized when they came into power - In other words, our black people have land - They just don't own it and so they are born in poverty and so they die in poverty - In fact there are more black people living on farmland in South Africa than the entire white and coloured population put together - If all this land was transferred to the black people where they are living in the homelands, they will be richer in land than the majority of white and coloured South Africans - And if they owned their respective plots in the homelands, they would be able to leverage wealth through property ownership and have the capital to send their children to the best universities in the country, but instead they have to sell their labour as domestic workers and petrol attendants - And please bear in mind that none of this land is bonded - And so to resolve the land question in South Africa, all the government has to do is to grant them title of their lands - But no it is much easier for the government to expropriate farmers' land - What is the point in taking a black person who is living as a subsistence farmer in Transkei and putting him on a white farm in the Karroo? How will this make his life any better? Would it not have been better to have given him or her title to the land and a free education for the kids? And as far as affirmative question is concerned - Affirmative action can only work if there are more whites than blacks.
The land that was taken in terms of the Group Areas Act.
Rubbish. You don't belong to South Africa. What's your concerns? Your ancestral country is the Netherlands 🇳🇱. So shut up and listen. That's the real truth, and you know it.💯 👏
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Khoisan, the first occupiers = absolute and sole proprietorship. Full stop. Thank you. Dr. Pheko
Mbeki is a paper tiger, very weak in reasoning, telling us about a document that he knows no author the Freedom Cheater,this ate politics not commerce