/ 26 May 1995

Make your mark on land reforms

PUBLIC comment is urgently being sought — by June 25 –=20 on a bold new land policy framework that promises sweeping=20 reforms for the poor and dispossessed.

The Department of Land Affairs recently published a Land=20 Policy Framework Document which covers crucial land reform=20 issues including restitution, security of tenure and=20 sustainable land use.

The document is available from David Cooper of the Land and=20 Agricultural Policy Centre, fax (011) 339-6423, or Maurice=20 Smithers at the Department of Land Affairs, fax (012) 323-

Artists’ Environment Week

* The individual styles of three generations of artists=20 will be showcased at The Studio, 488 Fifth Avenue, Parktown=20 North, Johannesburg, from June 3. Perhaps the best known=20 are botanical artist and author Barbara Jeppe and water=20 colourist and natural history illustrator Leigh Voigt.=20

Voigt’s work is internationally known and Jeppe has=20 published many books on South African plants.=20

Other artists exhibiting work are potter and jeweller Marie=20 McCrae, art lecturer Carl Jeppe, antique restorer and=20 sculptor David Jeppe, architect Max Voigt and graphic=20 designer Walter Voigt. For more information, tel (011) 788-