CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

DAY ONE, WEDNESDAY, 19 JUNE 2013 (16H30-19H30): Opening and Book Launch:
CHAIR: 16h30-16h45 16h45-16h55 16h55-17h05 17h05-17h15 17h15-18h15 PROF LUNGISILE NTSEBEZA (UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN - UCT) Welcome: Opening remarks Word on the SANPAD project: Word from the sponsor: Book launch Prof Martin Legassick (Historian and reviewer of the book) Prof Crain Soudien (Deputy Vice Chancellor UCT) Prof Lungisile Ntsebeza (UCT) Prof Fred Hendricks (Rhodes University) Dr David Woods (SANPAD)

In conversation with the three editors:

Prof Fred Hendricks (Rhodes Univesity) Prof Lungisile Ntsebeza (UCT) and Prof Kirk Helliker (Rhodes Univesity) Discussion

18h15-19h30 18h15-19h30 18h30-19h30

Cocktail and film Cocktail Film: Tsiamelo: a place of Goodness (Betty Wolpert: UK, 1984)

Abstract: While visiting London in 1983, Ellen Khuzwayo recalls that in 1913, author Sol T. Plaatje was in England as part of the South African Native Congress delegation to appeal to the British government to use its influence to prevent the introduction of the Native Land Act, a law that was to become a cornerstone of apartheid. A later visit of Plaatje's is recalled by Lord Brockway. Khuzwayo talks about her family's friendship with the author, and then returns to rural Thaba Nchu in the Orange Free State where she grew up. She talks about her aunt Blanche Tsimatsima and other elderly residents, and describes how their families were dispossessed of farms that had been theirs for generations. The film attends a family reunion and back in Soweto, Khuzwayo briefly refers to her 1977/78 detention.

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DAY TWO: THURSDAY, 20 JUNE 2013: Land Questions in South Africa

08h00-08h45 09h00-10h00 CHAIR: 09h00-10h00 Tea/coffee Session 1: PROF FRED HENDRICKS (RHODES UNIVERSITY) Keynote speaker: Adv. Dumisa Ntsebeza SC (President: Advocates for Transformation)

Title: 100 years of Dispossession --- 10 years after the Final Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Report: Quo Vadis Democratic South Africa? 10h00-11h30 Chair: 10h00-10h20 10h20-10h35 10h35-10h50 10h50-11h30 11h30-11h55 12h00-13h30 CHAIR: 12h05-12h20 12h20-12h35 12h35-12h50 12h00-13h30 13h30-14h20 14h30-16h00 CHAIR: 14h35-14h50 14h50-15h05 15h05-15h20 Session 2: Urban Land Questions Richard Pithouse (Rhodes University) Housing: Urban Agriculture: Commonages: Discussion Tea/coffee Session 3: Commercial farms PROF KIRK HELLIKER Workers on Farms: Small scale farmers: Women on farms: Discussion Lunch: Leslie Social Science Building Foyer Session 4: Communal areas PROF LUNGISILE NTSEBEZA Women's struggles: Governance issues: Act 9 areas Nora Mlondobezi (small scale farmer) Nomvuzo Nopote (community activist) Michael Jonas/John Ellis (Community leaders) Anele Mehlo (farm worker) Henry Michaels (small scale farmer) Magrieta Pieterse (farm worker) Mthobeli Qona (Abahlali BaseMjondoloWestern Cape vice chair) Trevor Lodewyk/Craig Jonkers (Urban farmers: Ithemba Farmers Project) Patrick Steenkamp (Hantam Karro farmer)

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15h20-16h00 16h00-16h30 16h30-17h30 CHAIR: 16h30-16h45 16H45-17h00 Discussion Tea/coffee LSS Foyer Session 5: Mission Stations and Marine Resources HERSCHELLE MILFORD Mission stations Struggle for marine resources Dennis Bantam (Resident) Christian Adams (Chairperson of Coastal Links South Africa)

17h00-17h30 17h30-19h00 17h30-18h10

Discussion Film, poetry and art Crossroads [no screen title] by Lindy Wilson (uncredited): South Africa; 1978. VHS

Abstract: A history of Crossroads from 1975 to 1978. The film shows the determination of the Crossroads community to survive in the face of continual harassment by BAAB and the demolition of Modderdam Road, Werkgenot and Unibel. At the time this documentary was made, Crossroads, a squatter community on the outskirts of Cape Town, consisted of some 20,000 people and 3,000 make-shift shacks. Founded in 1975, it was established by black contract workers whose families defied the law by joining them from the homelands. It had been under threat of demolition for some time when this material was shot in September 1978. The film traces the growth of the community, describes the daily life of its inhabitants and explains the legal constraints that had prevented its destruction up to that time. It quotes the authorities statements re-affirming their determination to demolish the camp and includes comments from a number of residents, as well as from economist Francis Wilson and lawyer Michael Richman. The programme is narrated by actress Janet Suzman. 18h10-19h00 Poetry and art

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DAY THREE: FRIDAY, 21 JUNE 2013: Perspective from the Global South and the Peoples Assembly
08h00-09h00 09h00-10h30 Tea/coffee LSS Foyer Session 1: Agrarian Questions in the South

CHAIR: PROF SAM MOYO (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF AFRICAN INSTITUTE OF AGRARIAN STUDIES) 09h00-9h45 Keynote Speaker: Prof Utsa Patnaik (Emeritus Professor, JNU, India)

Title: Contemporary Agrarian Questions in the South 09h45-10h00 Jacques Delpechins paper Richard Pithouse (Rhodes University)

Title: From splitting apart to healing: on the unity between land/earth/air/water, humans and their history. 10H00-10.30 10h30-11h00 11H00-13H00 CHAIR: 11h00-11h20 11h20-11h40 11h40-12h00 12h00-13h00 13h00-14h00 14h00-15h30 CHAIR: 14h00-14h30 14h30-15h15 15h15-16h00 16h00-16h30 16h30-18h00 16h30-18h00 DISCUSSION Tea/Coffee Session 2: Land Questions in Africa DR TENDAI MUSIRA (TRUST AFRICA) Zimbabwe Namibia Mozambique Discussion LUNCH Session 3: The Peoples Assembly PROF LUNGISILE NTSEBEZA Why the Peoples Assembly? What have we learnt from the conference? Statements from movements: Tshintsha Amakhaya, Coastal Links, small scale farmers, farm workers, rural women, Via Campesina, etc. Tea/coffee Session 4: The Peoples Assembly continued Commissions to discuss a vision and strategies towards radical rural transformation Elizabeth Mpofu Patricia Gurubes Boaventura Monjane

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18h00-19h30 18h00-18h50 Session 5: Film. Poetry and art DVD: Crossroads/South Africa: The struggle continues. (Produced by Jonathan Wacks Production, 1980).

ABSTRACT: Crossroads, an informal settlement situated about 12 miles outside Cape Town, was formed in 1975. Over a period of some five years, it had become home to approximately 20,000 inhabitants, many of whom, especially the women, were there illegally. During this time, there had been regular threats of raids by the authorities, intent on sending the women and children, who were in the Western Cape without passes, to settlement areas in the impoverished homeland of Transkei. This film goes into Crossroads to show something of daily life there and to talk to the people who had made it their home. In particular it talks to the women who, despite what happened in nearby Modderdam and Unibel, where bulldozers were also sent in to destroy peoples houses, are firmly resolved to stay put. 18h50-19h30 Poetry and art

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DAY FOUR: SATURDAY, 22 JUNE 2013: The Peoples Assembly continued

08h00-08h45 09h00-11h30 Tea/coffee Presentation, discussion and adoption of the draft declaration (see committee below).

COMMITTEE FOR DRAFTING THE DECLARATION Prof Kirk Helliker Prof Ruth Hall Dr Fani Ncapayi Ronald Wesso