Critical Dialogue Series: Does Land Still Matter?

South Africa has avoided the difficult work of reckoning with the pain of our past and dismantling and creating the future we want. Some may argue that land lies at the heart of the repair and redistributive work that we need to do and in the absence of solving the land question, meaningful justice is unachievable. While the issue of land took centre stage in public discourse with the release of the High Level Panel On The Assessment Of Key Legislation And The Acceleration of Fundamental Change, the Final Report of the Presidential Advisory Panel on Land Reform and Agriculture, as well as the public consultation process in relation to Section 25 of Constitution, it has become somewhat muted in recent years.