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Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi is a Kgalema Motlanthe is a former
member of the SA Law Reform president and deputy president of South
Commission and serves on President Africa. He led the high-level panel that,
Cyril Ramaphosa’s special advisory after intensive countrywide research,
committee on land reform. He is the INDABA recommended in November that
author of The Land is Ours: South government should use its expropriation
Africa’s First Black Lawyers and the powers more boldly instead of
Birth of Constitutionalism, and a regular amending the Constitution. The panel
speaker on legal and land-related found that a lack of leadership and
policy direction, corruption and
issues. October 3 2018 inadequate budgets were the causes of
JOHANNESBURG COUNTRY CLUB, failed land reform programmes.
AUCKLAND PARK
8.30am to 9am
Arrival and registration
Professor Peter Delius, emeritus
professor in Wits University’s history PART 1:
department, has published numerous Chief Livhuwani Matsila has a
books and articles on land and rural LOOKING BACK master’s degree in zoology. He served in
transformation. His most recent book, senior positions at SANParks, the
co-authored with William Beinart and department of environmental affairs and
Michelle Hay, is Rights to Land: A Guide 9am to 9.10am tourism, and the ANC caucus in
to Tenure Upgrading and Restitution in Welcome Parliament before he resigned to pursue
South Africa. community development interests. He
9.10am to 9.30am
established the Matsila Community
A past that haunts us Development Trust - a highly successful
Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi development initiative between Makhado
9.30am to 09.50am and Giyani in Limpopo.
Trying to right the wrongs: Land reform since 1994
Professor Peter Delius, Wits University
9.50am to 10.10am
Dr Aninka Claassens is the director of Equal citizenship and property rights in former homeland areas
the Land and Accountability Research Dr Aninka Claassens, University of Cape Town
Centre at the University of Cape Town.
She presided over the section on land 10.10am to 10.30am
in the high-level report produced by Success stories to build on Professor Sarah Charlton is associate
former president Kgalema Motlanthe’s Nick Serfontein and Patrick Sekwatlakwatla, Sernick Group professor at the School of Architecture
panel, which was engaged in public 10.30am to 11am and Planning at Wits. She has worked
hearings in 2016 about poverty and on low-income housing for more than
inequality, land reform and social Q&A with the editors 20 years and contributed to national and
cohesion. 11am to 11.30am local government housing policies. She
Tea is part of a three-year UK, South African
and Ethiopian research project exploring
urban change and everyday life on the
PART 2: peripheries of three African city regions.
LOOKING FORWARD
Nick Serfontein is chairperson of the 11.30am to 11.50am
Sernick Group, which started with a The land question in South Africa
Bonsmara stud in Mahikeng and now Former president Kgalema Motlanthe
has an annual turnover of R1.2 billion. 11.50am to 12.10pm
They recently concluded a multimillion- Dan Kriek, president of AgriSA, is a
rand deal with the Jobs Fund that will Land reform and climate change – agriculture in 2050 cattle farmer from the Free State and
benefit 600 black farmers. Mandi Smallhorne, president: African Federation of Science Journalists former president of Free State
12.10pm to 12.30pm Agriculture. Kriek is an advocate for
Communal land: A way forward land reform policies that benefit our
wider society. He serves on president
Chief Livhuwani Matsila
Cyril Ramaphosa’s newly appointed
12.30pm to 12.50pm special advisory committee on land
Getting our priorities straight: The quest for housing and urban land reform.
Professor Sarah Charlton, Wits University
12.50pm to 1.10pm
Mandi Smallhorne is president of the
African Federation of Science A plan for commercial agriculture
Journalists. She is a writer specialising Dan Kriek, president of AgriSA
in health, climate change, the 1.10pm to 2pm
environment and social issues.
Lunch
Wandile Sihlobo is an agricultural
economist and head of agribusiness
PART 3: research at the Agricultural Business
Chamber. Sihlobo was previously an
SUCCESSFUL LAND economist at Grain SA and served on
the Agri-Sector Unity Forum land
reform working group. He is a
Patrick Sekwatlakwatla is an award- REFORM AND POLITICS member of the president’s special
winning animal scientist with more than advisory committee on land reform.
two decades of experience in farming. 2pm to 2.20pm
He pioneered competitions and
information days for emerging farmers Agriculture and the future of food production
at Obaro, and now heads up farmer Wandile Sihlobo, Agricultural Business Chamber
development programmes at the 2.20pm to 3.20pm
Sernick Group. Planning for success in land reform
Political debate with the ANC, the DA, the EFF, the UDM, the FF+, Cope and the IFP
3.20pm to 5pm
Networking and drinks
