http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/Dakar2011/70905

The following audio piece [mp3] is an interview with Africa Mthombeni from South Africa’s Landless People’s Movement which is a member of la Via Campesina, an international movement that brings together millions of peasants, indigenous people, women farmers, migrants and agricultural workers. The group was formed in 1999 by landless people in South Africa frustrated by the slow pace of land reform. Mthombeni highlights South Africa’s specific land situation starting with the land act of 1913, which enclosed the majority of black people on 13 per cent of the land within Bantu reserves. 87 per cent was left to mostly white commercial farmers. Despite the end of apartheid over 20 years ago, the pace of land reform has remained very slow.

Interviews conducted by Zahra Moloo, an independent journalist from Kenya, currently based in London, UK.