Today (Monday 19th June) marks exactly one-hundred-and-ten years since the passing of the 1913 Natives Land Act. This Act limited African land ownership to 7% and later changed to 13% through the 1936 Native Trust and Land Act of South Africa. Since the dawn of democracy, the various regimes from Nelson Mandela’s government to Cyril Ramaphosa have not really come up with concrete solutions on the land issue. The other criticism is that those who managed to get their land back don’t really know what to do with it. On the other hand government has been criticised for not doing enough to support those who got their land back. Before we get into the conversant, let’s take a listen to a summary of this Act from 1913 till 1993 and how it was being used by the then apartheid regime to forcefully remove people from their land...

Guest: Dr Tony Kambi Masha – Public Management lecturer at the Walter Sisulu University’s Komani campus. He is also a social realist, academic and accidental writer on land matters

Guest: Prof. Ben Cousin - Emeritus Professor, University of the Western Cape

Guest: Nolundi Luwaya - Director of the Land and Accountability Research Centre (LARC) at the University of Cape Town