Today our guest is Peter Setou, Chief Executive of non-profit organisation, the Vumelana Advisory Fund.
- The World Bank also identified the legacy of apartheid as one of the main drivers of inequality in SA.
- The study found that the rural economy can benefit from resolving land inequality and strengthening land rights both in law and in practice.
- According to the report, weak property rights remain a key source of policy uncertainty in South Africa and political progress has not been matched by progress inequity and economic fairness mainly because distortions from the past pose critical obstacles to social progress.
- On this land issue, A non profit organisation is arguing that land rights are human rights.
- The Vumelana Advisory Fund says the need to prioritise land restitution is integral to redressing the wrongs of the past by restoring land to its rightful owner.
- It says Integral to the commemoration of Human Rights Day should be the need to acknowledge that the land reform programme forms the nucleus of human rights in South Africa.