[OSGeo Africa] 1913 Natives Land Act Exhibition on Social Media Platforms

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

Perhaps it was published here before and I missed it, but are there any
free / public datasets (GIS ones of course!) that indicate where the
contested land parcels are?

Thanks

Regards

Tim


On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 8:42 PM, Chris <chris at airphotoafrica.co.za> wrote:

>
>     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
>
>     http://acfs.ukzn.ac.za/Homepage.aspx
>
>     That said , I do intend to visit the "show"  if / when it gets to UKZN
>
>
>     CM
>
>
>
> On 1 Aug 2013 at 8:50, Aslam Parker wrote:
>
> > Please circulate this to members.
>
> > >>>>>>>
> > 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
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIXqnDdaeJo ,
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L3kYeseFpQ ,
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3NKcTsa1aUto 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
> > www.reversingthelegacy.org for more information on the exhibition. To
> view
> > the clip on the eNCA go to
> > http://www.enca.com/exhibition-set-open-eyes-about-native-land-act
>
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