Ramaphosa briefs press on land summit, says almost nothing

President Cyril Ramaphosa called the summit, ‘A landmark summit for the African National Congress’, because the party was “giving full expression to the decision we took at our 54^th conference … on the question of the land”.

Ramaphosa continued: “We are now moving forward as the African National Conference to the NEC, [who] will deliberate on the outcomes of the land summit, and … we will be then able to outline more fully and clearly the proposals that have come from the workshop that we had.”

“All in all it was a wonderful experience, we had experts, we had people from NGOs, we had people on the ground, people who are working with the land issue, people who are farming, and we also had occasion to deal with urban land. When the NEC this coming weekend has finalised its position, our clearer position will then be outlined.”

At the briefing, it was left to economic transformation head Enoch Godongwana to answer tough questions on the land summit.

Like the president, Godongwana revealed little, but did admit he believed the ANC’s acceptance of the “willing buyer, willing seller” model was a mistake.

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