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

[Chris]

    TIm ,

    I understand that we are talking land data sets GIS and Geomatics

    However

    Acting minister Lechesa Tsenoli is a member of the central committee of 
    the South African Communist party.

    http://cogta.gov.za/index.php/about-cogta/105-ministers-profile.html

    Now there is possibly nothing wrong in being a member of the Communist 
    party ......

    However it comes with a certain philosophical mind-set and approach -- 
    one that is inherently antagonistic towards private property.

    When I have some time I will see if I can find the Honourable Ministers 
    speech on the Land Audit.

    Unless of course Aslam updates us before that on the progress of the RDLR 
    land audit process ?


    CM



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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