GEORGE NEWS - The call to speed up land expropriation without compensation was the topic of the day at a Human Rights Day commemoration held on Wednesday 21 March at the Thembalethu Thusong Centre.
The event was organised by the Support Centre for Land Change (SCLC) in George. SCLC is a civil society organisation that focuses on labour, tenure and human rights of farm and forestry workers and dwellers; access to land and resources for small-scale / subsistence farmers and producers; and support and solidarity for communities resisting land development that threatens their homes, livelihoods, health and heritage.
On Human Rights Day they held a dialogue in line with the current national debate on land expropriation without compensation, and discussed land justice in post-apartheid South Africa.
The keynote speaker was Leonard Gentle, a social justice activist from Cape Town, who talked about the need for government to accelerate policies that will allow people who have been dispossessed of their land to return there.
Stakeholders who attended discussed issues such as the rights of farmworkers and people who have been removed from their land.
Gentle is a retired director of the International Labour and Research Information Group (ILRIG), an NGO that produces educational material for activists in social movements and trade unions. Stakeholders who attended discussed a number of issues such as the rights of farmworkers and people who have been removed from their land.
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