Madam Deputy Speaker and hon members, we have come a long way since the days when some key stakeholders felt that some parts of this Bill were constitutionally invalid. Intensive dialogue and robust debate have enabled us to come up with a Bill that seeks to ensure that the system of special planning and land use management promotes social and economic inclusion.
It provides for the sustainable and efficient use of land and redresses past imbalances. The Bill will, to a considerable degree, help undo the damage done by the Native Land Act of 1913, which reserved large tracts of prime land for whites only, forcing many African families in South Africa into crowded native reserves. Nearly 20 years since the advent of our democracy, the poor still reside in dusty townships far away from leafy suburbs and their places of work.
We are therefore pleased to see that attention has been paid to redress access to land by disadvantaged communities and persons previously excluded, with the emphasis, as the hon Minister has stated before at this podium, on informal settlements, former homeland areas and areas characterised by widespread poverty and deprivation.
However, in order for us to achieve the noble goals of this Bill, such as building social and economic inclusion, we need to establish the main factors that hinder policy implementation in South Africa, as hon Madisha, who was here before me, has said. South Africa is very good at developing good policies, but always fall short on implementation.
The UDM supports this Bill. Thank you.