The South African Communist Party will lead a delegation of organisations concerned with landlessness to meet with Agri-SA to help expedite land reform, the SACP said on Tuesday.
A date for the meeting has still to be negotiated, SACP secretary general Blade Nzimande told a meeting of organisations concerned with landlessness.
Organised commercial agriculture’s wish to meet the SACP came weeks after the SACP wrote to Agri-SA, demanding an end to evictions from farms and that trade unions be allowed to operate on farms.
The objectives of Tuesday’s meeting were to form a broad delegation that will meet Agri-SA, and to list issues the 10-member team, to be led by the SACP, will raise when meeting Agri-SA.
”We are looking forward to engaging them,” Nzimande said, adding that his party will press Agri-SA to commit itself to the party’s demands.
The National Land Committee, the Landless People’s Movement, the Congress of South African Trade Unions, church bodies, and academics were among those present at Tuesday’s meeting. — Sapa