The National Dialogue cannot be allowed to become a containment strategy for the political elite.
National dialogue or elite containment? The case for a people’s alternative
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The National Dialogue cannot be allowed to become a containment strategy for the political elite.
IT IS NOW WIDELY ACKNOWLEDGED that post-1994 land reform policies and programmes have been a miserable disappointment. They have failed to deliver tenure security to those whose land rights are at risk. They have failed to provide meaningful restitution to black South...
COLONIALISM, APARTHEID AND neoliberalism remain foundational in shaping the inherited dualistic, unequal and racially divided land and agrarian structure. And we still have that same structure some 29 years into South Africa’s democratic dispensation. At the heart of...