[OSGeo Africa] PLAAS Fact check No1 An Overview of Distribution of Land in South Africa

[Chris]

    TIm ,

    We have previously been told that the RDLR land audit has been completed.
    According to a recent altercation in Parliament this is perhaps not 
    correct ?

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    MPs stage walkout after 'nonsense' ruling 
    Cape Town 
    2014-03-13
    Following a set of verbal exchanges reminiscent of a Monty Python sketch, 
    disagreement over the meaning of the word "nonsense" saw an MP ordered 
    out of the National Assembly on Thursday.  

    Speaking after a statement by Acting Rural Development and Land Reform 
    Minister Lechesa Tsenoli on the recent land audit report, Freedom Front 
    Plus MP Pieter Groenewald told him he was talking nonsense. 

    "I want to say to the Honourable Minister, you came to this podium and 
    you spoke a load of nonsense. You said nothing. You're supposed to make a 
    statement on the land audit, 
    and 
    all you came here to say is we're busy with the land audit."    

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Politics/MPs-stage-walkout-after-
nonsense-ruling-20140313

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    Perhaps Aslam can tell us ( unlike his Deputy Minister ) if the RDLR land 
    audit is in fact competed -- and if the results / data sets are in fact 
    available for public scrutiny ?  

    PS ;  I am NOT picking on Aslam -- [unfortunately]  he acts in his role 
    capacity as an employee of the Department in question. Where it would 
    appear that debating the meits of the word "nonsense" is more important 
    than the very pressing issue of the Land Audit.

    Thos interested can look up the career of Nomaindia Mfeketo. IF I am not 
    mistaken previous premier of the Western Cape ?

    CM

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On 14 Mar 2014 at 23:43, Tim Sutton wrote:

> Hi Aslam
 
> Is there any public access to the spatial datasets used to derive these
> stats? It would be great as a matter of course to make such datasets
> publicly available under a free license so that folks in the GIS community
> can interpret the data for themselves (in addition to these nice summaries
> etc.). It will also lend some credibility to, and allow fact checking of
> products such as the one you have attached.

> Regards
 
> Tim


 
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Aslam Parker <
> APARKER at ruraldevelopment.gov.za> wrote:
> 
> >  Hi All
> >
> > FYI. Attached see one of may fact check pamphlets from PLAAS. We can all
> > learn from  how PLAAS have been portraying crucial information in a
> > simple but very effective way.
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