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The author of South Africa's racially unequal land ownership distribution needs to be chanted in a constructive way, to form Constitutional Court and Albie Sachs said on Friday.
He was one of several speakers at the University of Cape Town's Department of African Studies' Colloquium on Land.
"I do not like war talk," Sachs said. "
" You can not take your morality from the enemy, "he said, adding that Oliver Tambo had been taught that" you must be the captain of your own morality "
"Change is uncomfortable, change is disruption."
Sachs said there were, however, degrees of disruption and that the tone was important .
"It does not mean people should not be angry, it is the anger of ages. We need to channel anger in a constructive way. "
Lawyer and author of The Land is Bear advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi said the question of land ownership was really the question of citizenship. He explained that when the Union of South Africa was formed in 1910, English-speaking whites and Dutch-speaking whites were granted citizenship, but not the native people. The 1913 Natives Land Act was a consolidation of this.
He said the question at the time, which led to the formation of the ANC, was "without land, are you truly a South African?"
"Whites decided natives can stay on the ground, as long as they are tenants and laborers. "
Ngcukaitobi said the Constitution was not the problem, but rather a Eurocentric legal culture.
Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights Phephelaphi Dube said South Africa's legal culture had "failed to keep up with the transformative nature of the Constitution", especially Section 25.
She was not convinced that tested.
"We've got the Expropriation Bill sitting in Parliament for two years, there does not seem to be a political will." – Sapa
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