15 October 2004
84 delegates from 44 organisations (see list below) met in Johannesburg today at the SACP-convened National Consultative Conference on the 2004 Red October Campaign on land and agrarian reform. The organisations agreed on the need for a complete review of the land reform policy framework and progress to date as well as the need for the following:
The organisations will meet again to prepare for a further national consultative summit (referred to as the People’s Consultative Conference) to mobilise the widest range of forces to prepare for the National Summit.
The organisations further agreed to:
Support each other’s respective campaign actions, including the Red October programme which will culminate into a National Day of Action on 6 November To debate further the alternatives to the willing buyer, willing seller principle, the need to shift the restitution date, the occupation and use of unused land, the need to decommodify land and food to ensure food security, other government policies including the budget and the various forms of organisation that are needed to organise people living and working in farms and rural areas
The organisations will seek to engage government, AgriSA, the churches, parliament, CONTRALESA and NAFU and all other institutions and organiSations in the pursuit of the objectives of land, food and jobs for all.
Contact
Mazibuko Kanyiso Jara (surname Jara)
Head of the Office of the General Secretary
South African Communist Party
Tel - 011 339 3621, Fax - 011 339 4244/6880
Cell - 083 651 0271
Email - mazibuko@sacp.org.za, sacpho@wn.apc.org (alternate)
List of organisations which attended the SACP-Convened National Consultative Conference on the 2004 Red October Campaign
1. AIDS Consortium
2. ANC
3. Association for Rural Advancement
4. Azanian People's Organisation
5. Black Sash
6. Centre for Applied Legal Studies
7. Chris Hani Institute
8. Congress of South African Students
9. Congress of South African Trade Unions
10. Dora Tamana Co-operative Centre
11. Financial Sector Campaign Coalition
12. Food and Allied Workers' Union
13. For a Better Society
14. Inkululeko Media and Marketing Co-operative
15. Kgoloko International Research for Rural Development
16. Land Access Movement of South Africa
17. Land Now Campaign
18. Landless Peoples' Movement
19. Legal Resources Centre
20. National Association of Librarians
21. National Co-operatives' Association of South Africa
22. National Education, Health and Allied Workers' Union
23. National Labour and Economic Development Institute
24. National Land Committee
25. National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa
26. Nkuzi Development Association
27. Pan Africanist Congress of Azania
28. People Opposed to Women's Abuse
29. People’s Dialogue
30. Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies (University of the Western Cape)
31. SA NGO Coalition
32. SAMWU
33. South African Agricultural Paper and Allied Workers Union
34. South African Communist Party
35. South African Democratic Teacher's Union
36. South African Homeless People's Federation
37. South African Human Rights Commission
38. South African Students' Congress
39. South African Transport and Allied Workers' Union
40. South African Youth Council
41. Surplus People's Project
42. Swaziland Solidarity Network
43. Transvaal Rural Action Committee
44. Young Communist League of South Africa
Individuals
1. Esther Barsel – SACP veteran
2. Professor Devan Pillay - expert on land and agrarian studies
3. Samuel Karioki - Wits University Sociology Department