GEORGE NEWS - The Support Centre for Land Change (SCLC) in George held a dialogue on Wednesday 21 March at the Thembalethu Thusong Centre to commemorate Human Rights Day.
The dialogue was held in the interest of the current national debate on land expropriation without compensation and to discuss land justice in post-apartheid South Africa.
Stakeholders who attended, discussed a number of issues such as the rights of farmworkers and people who have been removed from their land.
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.
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.
Photos: Zolani Sinxo
He has been an anti-apartheid activist for many years and has worked as an organiser for the South African Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers' Union (Saccawu), the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) and as an educator for the International Federation of Workers' Educational Associations (IFWEA).
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