| | 'We will not sit back and watch as the wealth builds up in the cities, while on the edges of these cities, in the small towns and in the countryside, we continue to starve' . This was the challenge issued by 700 representatives of 357 rural and landless communities at the National Land Conference in Bloemfontein in February 1994. It is a sharp reminder to the new government of national unity, preoccupied as it will be by the overwhelming need for jobs and housing in urban areas, that the link between access to land and political freedom in South Africa is a fundamental one. |
