Speaker, the ANC will always adhere to the dictates of the Freedom Charter by distributing land to the people of our country. In that vein, the ANC has tasked the Ministry of Rural Development and Land Reform to use the available resources within the institutional capacity of the commission to drive restitution, tenure reform and land distribution - our heritage - from unwilling land holders to the landless masses of our patient and poor people, before they turn this country into a bigger Zimbabwe.
We, the deployees of the ANC in the Rural Development and Land Reform portfolio committee, are aware that this task will not be easy, but we refuse to tell lies and claim easy victories. We commit to work with farmer unions, worker unions, the landless people, labour tenants and traditional leaders to democratise ownership, access and use of land within the available law and resources, as there will be no democracy in our beloved South Africa while the vast majority of our citizens and their children stand aside and look on while the rich, and usually absent, landlords are enjoying the privilege of holding land when the rest of the population wallow in poverty and squalor.