The ANC-led government had an opportunity after 1994 to address land reform but a number of factors, including corruption and failure to speed up land restitution for five million affected people, meant the country was far away from ensuring land redress.
KEVIN SUTHERLAND
There is a period in which we acquired enough political power, military power and police power. But what did we do? That is where we squandered freedom and also squandered the possibility of freedom for young people coming after us“But it has been managed so disastrously that when a case came before the Constitutional Court in 2019, they said if the government goes according to the current pace, it is going to take another 718 years before it can settle all restitution claims.
He said a lot of people wanted to find out what the minutes from Codesa said about the land issue and what was the deal first democratic president Nelson Mandela struck with whites. “That was the true political economy we were engaged with. We were engaged with an enemy that was not defeated. Mandela knew the enemy had not been defeated.”
The point about the political economy of the transition is that liberation movements entered into the negotiations with framing the agreement against them.
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