Staff writer THERE is ample evidence that women remain at the bottom of the pile when it comes to the number of beneficiaries of the land-reform process, said a leading expert in the field, Dr Wallace Mgoqi, to the Rural Women’s Assembly South Africa Land Conference in Boschendal, Franschhoek, this week.
The Rural Women’s Assembly has a membership exceeding 100 000 black rural women in the southern Africa region. Member countries include South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Mauritius, Malawi, Madagascar, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
The South African Chapter of the assembly has been advancing a campaign, One Woman, One Hectare, for the past six years, championed by Mgoqi, a former chief land claims commissioner, former city manager, former gender commissioner, and former acting judge for the Land Claims Court.
The campaign…