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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><font face="Times New Roman">I have not
really had time to go through it - but in a quick browse now I
picked up on the pledge as the last part of the Exhibit.<br>
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"<i>I pledge that I will never again be party to legislation
which leads to misery for my fellow countrymen and women. I
pledge to be</i><i><br>
</i><i>fair – to share success, to help alleviate the sufferings
of the less-privileged, to do what I can to uplift the
downtrodden; in the sure</i><i><br>
</i><i>knowledge that in doing so, I lift myself, my country and
my hopes for the future.</i>"<br>
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Immediately contradictions come to mind - silencing of
journalists (state secrets) Corruption is now a serious problem
and contributing to a major share of poverty;<br>
Continued entrenchment of the Homeland system, when Gov has the
power to scrap it.</font> - in fact they continue to pass laws
further diminishing rights and further entrenching the system.<br>
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I would be most interested to know if Government officials and
politicians have signed this pledge. As it seems to me that the
one hand does not know what the other is doing.<br>
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I will go through the rest of it in the coming weeks.<br>
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Regards<br>
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Peter <br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Peter Newmarch
Professional Land Surveyor
4Y GeoInformatics Pty Ltd
Tel : +27 31 5642856
Fax : +27 31 5643074
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eMail : <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:newmarch@land-surveyors.com">newmarch@land-surveyors.com</a> </pre>
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Aslam ,
With due respect .......
I had a look at your links and I am afraid I came away with the
impression that the RDLA effort is all pure progaganda -- geared to an
election next year..Talking about van Riebeck and colonialism ( of a
special type ) nearly four hundred years after the event , shows how far
some have drifted from the spirit of "Ubuntu" , Mandela and the Freedom
Charter. ( Yes I can also read and understand "comrade-speak" ! ) I am
sure many , less well read in the REAL history are going to come away
with the crudely simplistic impression -- Very bad White man stole good
peace loving black mans land -- perhaps this is the message that the
ruling party intends they should have ? Apart from "open-eyes" I would
think that people should also have "open-minds" ?
As you know I have been doing some reading on this issue and the
associated history. Without claiming to have any expert knowledge on the
subject and not having been directly affected ( I am not a land owner ) I
found the pages referenced did not contain anything that I would consider
educational -- at least in any sense of offering a detailed intellectual
unbiased account. ( and when are people going to learn that if
information is behind a "sign-in-and-come-and-join-us" *Facebook* then I
am really not interested ) -- BTW it appears you have 57 "likes' ? I am
not sure if that says anything significant ?
There are detailed accounts ( documents ) that are extant and which a bit
of searching will reveal.
I refer to the work of Professor Harvey M Feinberg [ with Andre Horn
University of Pretoria ]
and an even more detailed account presented in the Masters thesis of
Patricia Grattan Dickson
"The Natives Land Act .1913: It's Antecedants , Passage and Reception"
University of Cape Town December 1970
Which looks at original source records like HANSARD and official
Government documentation.
Then there are the papers read at the LandDivided2013 Conference that
was held recently , also at UCT
Papers like that of Prof Peter Delius and William Beinart ( who if they
are reading this should get their paper out of draft form and onto the
LandDivided website )
In short -- I see lots of emotion and very little REAL coverage of the
very complex and multi layered issues.
History ( especially when the issues are so sensitive ) needs to be
RIGOROUS !
For all the politicking , the money could rather have been given to
something like
[the] African Centre for Food Security
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://acfs.ukzn.ac.za/Homepage.aspx">http://acfs.ukzn.ac.za/Homepage.aspx</a>
That said , I do intend to visit the "show" if / when it gets to UKZN
CM
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<pre wrap="">Dear members of GISSA/SAGI/OSGEO
As you know the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform has put a
major interactive exhibition on the effects of the Native Land Act and
other Apartheid Legislation on human settlements and society. It is now at
Nasrec in Gauteng and will move to every province of the country. I
strongly recommend that you visit this free exhibition and encourage
colleagues and family to attend as well.
To unlock access to Facebook and other social media, like our Facebook
page on Facebook/reversingthelegacy and follow us on Twitter
@reversinglegacy #sa1913land act.
Also check out these You Tube links
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIXqnDdaeJo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIXqnDdaeJo</a> ,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L3kYeseFpQ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L3kYeseFpQ</a> ,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3NKcTsa1aUto">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3NKcTsa1aUto</a> catch up on the latest
developments taking place at the 1913 Natives’ Land Act Exhibition.
Visit the Reversing the Legacy of the 1913 Natives’ Land Act website on
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.reversingthelegacy.org">www.reversingthelegacy.org</a> for more information on the exhibition. To view
the clip on the eNCA go to
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.enca.com/exhibition-set-open-eyes-about-native-land-act">http://www.enca.com/exhibition-set-open-eyes-about-native-land-act</a>
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