Eastern Cape to debate land issue

The Eastern Cape department of rural development and agrarian reform is hosting a three-day land dialogue where the "land issue" will be debated.
The debate, which is in conjunction with the four Eastern Cape universities and other departments, is expected to conclude with an announcement of a formation of an Eastern Cape land reform implementation council.
This comes amid robust debates on land reform and land expropriation without compensation which was a conference resolution of the ruling ANC's elective congress in 2017.
The summit is hosted under the theme "Towards an equitable generational inheritance through land reform aimed at improving the lives of the people of the the Eastern Cape Province".
Talking with DispatchLIVE, hosting MEC Xolile Nqatha said the debate was also to clarify the ANC's resolution as it could have meant different things to different people...

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