ABSTRACT

The government Panel on land reform, headed by Dr. Vuyokazi Mahlati, presents an encompassing analysis of government programmes suggesting revised and new programmes to increase the speed of land reform. This note registers that improvement of local democracy is not a variable in the report. The note suggests that the Panel is stuck in old ways, in effect a centralised planning tradition and a heavily top down governing model. It suggests that developing local municipal and amakhosi democracy might seem a detour in land politics but might actually lead to a different and more effective land reform. Such land reform will favour more dignity, creativity and trust among people and a more fair modernisation of the South African economy.

摘要

由Vuyokazi Mahlati博士领导的政府土地改革小组对政府计划进行了全面分析，提出了旨在提高土地改革速度的修订计划和新计划。本说明表明，改善地方民主不是报告中的变量。该说明表明，专家小组固守旧规矩，实际上是一种集中的计划传统和一种高度自上而下的治理模式。它表明发展地方市政民主和阿马科西民主政治似乎在土地政治中是绕道而行的，但实际上可能导致另一种更有效的土地改革。这样的土地改革将有利于人民之间更多的尊严，创造力和信任，以及南非经济更公平的现代化。