Hon Deputy Speaker, yes I agree that giving land to our people and ensuring that we protect their rights and we give them tenure and title deeds, is precisely what we should do. There has been asset poverty in our country for generations and hundreds of years.
When land was taken from our forebears, what was done through that act, including the legislative part, the Land Act of 1913 and so forth, which was preceded by wars of disposition when our people were moved from areas where they lived, was actually asset stripping. They were stripped of the assets that they had.
Many of our people had two or three types of assets. They had their land, they had their livestock and they also had their own inherent knowledge and experience. When they were moved, they were stripped of all those and they remained asset less for hundreds of years and to that end, many of our forebears were never even able to leave and bequeath anything to their children as inheritances because, what they could have left as bequeaths for their children was taken away. That is when poverty and inequality set in, in real effect.
So this is what we are seeking to change. We are seeking to change the architecture of asset-based wealth in our county. So giving our people land, giving them title deeds, is actually to give the assets they should have had throughout their lives.
So we support title deeds granting to our people. We support that they should have tenure and the Constitution is very clear on this; it talks about tenure and land rights for all and not for some. We live in a country where land rights and tenure were for some only; for a minority of minorities and this must now end. We must give land to our people. That is something that we are not going to turn away from. Thank you very much. [Applause.]
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