DA commemorates 1913 Land Act centenary

Athenkosi Mvane

23 January 2013

The Democratic Alliance said that all South Africans should partake in the commemoration the 1913 Land Act’s hundredth year.

Doing so would be in order to better understand the law’s tragic consequences, and find ways to redress it meaningfully.

The apartheid Act reserved 87 percent of South Africa’s land exclusively for white ownership, as the basis of the Bantustan policy.

Premier Helen Zille’s office spokesperson Cameron Arendse said some of the questions South African citizens need to ask themselves is why 90 % of 5.9 million hectares of land, bought by the state for emerging farmers, no longer productive.

“Why on these 20 years since the dawn of democracy is the audit of state owned land still not complete yet?” Arendse asked.