MERCY & JUSTICE PBC
LAND MATTERS
Resources for learning
Evening service congregation looked at the topic of land justice in South Africa on 09 Sep and 16 Sep 2018. This is a pressing issue now in the media despite the conversation having begun years ago since democracy. All at PBC were welcome to attend--not just the evening congregation. We did not advertise this series beyond the PBC community as the aim was to create a safe learning space for the PBC family to grapple with this contested topic.
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RESOURCES
Common Ground Church's Social Justice
Session on Land (video)
Common Ground: Let's talk about land
Common Ground: Let's talk about land
Sharlene Swartz | Intro to the Conversation
Brian Koela | Naboth's Vineyard
Justine Burns Interviews Professor Ruth Hall from PLAAS
01 Intro Sharlene Swartz
Two key numbers highlighting inequality in our country. Very powerful. Basics of Restitution. Dignity & Belonging.
02 Interview Ruth Hall
Ruth Hall is a professor at the University of the Western Cape at PLAAS. A political scientist by training, she specialises in the politics and the political economy of agrarian reform, land redistribution, and poverty. Why is land important? Analysis of how ANC dealt with Land Reform historically and what is happening currently - urban and rural. Learning from other countries. Potential ways forwards. Comment on churches and land.
03 Talk Brian Koela - Theological view on Land
04 Q&A
All three speakers
Questions from audience: How many of the land handovers have been successful? What are the misperceptions of land reform? What is the role of repentance in our corporate sin? Why has the ANC government been so poor at land reform? What is your view about groups like Reclaim the City who are occupying buildings? Why is the pace of change so slow with District Six? As a white South African who doesn't own land, what can I do as an act of restitution.
05 Land Restitution
A list of 24 hard things and very hard things that we can do.
Every Nation Church Rosebank (podcast)
Land
01 Welcome and Intro
02 Speaker one - Dr Wallace Mgoqi
Land Reform and Land expropriation. Why land reform has failed in SA. Ideas for how land reform can be done better. Comment on Expropriation without compensation.
03 Speaker two - Rene August
Explores if there is a biblical perspective on land. Asks What is God's dream for land? What is Justice? Where is the Church the in this conversation of Land.
04 Panel Discussion
3 different panelists
Panelists from different backgrounds share their comments and engage with questions. So many good topics are covered.
Isiphambano Centre for Biblical Justice
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Restitution and Repentance - John Scheepers
In this talk John Scheepers will explore white fears and anger around issues of land and restitution
The Legacy of Forced Removals in Cape Town - Ryan Saville
In this talk Ryan Saville explores the legacy of forced removals in Cape Town, including the legacy and the role of the church.
Zimbabwe and Land Reform -Lindiwe Mpofu
In this talk Lindiwe Mpofu discusses land reform from speak to land from a young, black Zimbabwean, female perspective.
Black landlessness - Peter Makapela
In this talk Peter Makapela discusses the legacy of black landlessness and the townships.
Spatial Justice by The Warehouse
In this episode, Stephen De Beer from the University of Pretoria's Centre for Contextual Ministry speaks about spatial justice, its theological foundations, and the key role that the South African church can play in bringing it about. Listen to it below.
The Warehouse Newsletter - Focus on Land - June 2018
View here. As some of the links in this newsletter are not working we have provided the correct one's below:
A compilation of essays addressing the church and issues of land in SA (link from The Warehouse's June newsletter)
A compilation of articles looking at land issues across the continent (link from The Warehouse's June newsletter)
ORGANISATIONS
Reclaim the City is a Cape Town-based campaign for desegregation and affordable housing development in the inner-city. Launched on 13 February 2016, the campaign consists of an active chapter of domestic workers and low-income earners in Sea Point, supporters among poor tenants in Woodstock and Salt River, young professionals, high school pupils, students, and workers from across Cape Town. We believe that it is the State’s obligation to play a proactive role to reverse spatial apartheid in Cape Town.
RECLAIM THE CITY
Ndifuna Ukwazi supports Reclaim the City, an independent social movement of tenants and workers struggling with access to land and affordable housing who believe it is time to take the struggle justice and equality to the centre of the city, to the people who should live there, to the heart of power and to the land that matters. The movement has tapped into a deep sense of injustice in the city about the current model of exclusionary development, bearing in mind the history of apartheid spatial planning and forced removals.
NDIFUNA UKWAZI
Why Restitution?
South Africa’s painful past caused many traumatic memories and huge inequalities within societies. A peaceful future in South Africa is only possible through the healing of traumatic memories related to our racist past and the establishment of a more equal and just South African society. The Restitution Foundation believes this would be achieved through acts of restitution.
Who is the Restitution Foundation?
The Restitution Foundation is a Cape Town based non-profit organisation that promotes socio-economic justice, healing and reconciliation through restitution.
Mission: To be a catalyst for Restitution in South Africa.
Vision: To model restitution that will bring justice and healing to the nation.
