politics for the 99%

Published on BRICS POST (Source: Agencies), Jan 10, 2014;

The South African government has vowed to restore land to its rightful owners, President Jacob Zuma said on Thursday.
“Land Reform is an important part of national reconciliation and nation building,” asserted Zuma while handing over 13,184 hectares of previously white-owned land to the black N’wandlamhlarhi Community in Mpumalanga Province.  

“This important occasion takes place just a day after the 102nd anniversary of the African National Congress (ANC), the liberation movement that made it its mission to fight for the return of the land to the dispossessed masses of our people,” Zuma said.

South Africa’s notorious 1913 Land Act and many other apartheid laws facilitated wresting land control from the indigenous African people.

The handover is seen as a major step by the ANC towards land reforms, a tough task facing the ruling ANC.

“It is being handed over during a year in which we mark 20 years of freedom and democracy in our country. The restoration of land to rightful owners is one of the biggest responsibilities you gave the democratic government,” Zuma highlighted … //

… Since the ANC came to power in 1994, it had set a target of redistributing 30 per cent of commercial farmland to historically disadvantaged communities by 2014.

With only six per cent of land having been transferred to blacks since 1994, the ANC is sure to miss its target.
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Links:

The Euro-BRICS cooperation, matrix of a new world order, on Euro-BRICS, by Sylvain Perifel, July 6, 2013; … Conclusion: This example of a partnership of the eurozone and the BRICS in order to lead the reform of the IMS by starting with their own common currency is the template that seems most appropriate for a smooth reform of the global governance: be they exemplary and innovative and the world will follow the immensely important and representative Euro- BRICS countries.
A first step in this promising Euro-BRICS partnership should be to organise a Euro- BRICS summit in order to agree on common interests and strategies ahead of each G20 summit. As the lessons of the global systemic crisis have not been learnt yet and a new shock is looming, a strong move of the Euro-BRICS to build a new global governance becomes urgent;

India’s trade deficit with China mounts to $ 31.42 bn, on Euro-BRICS, Jan 10, 2014 (also on The Economic Times of India Times);

trade deficit, a Page with related articles on The Economic Times of India Times, by Swaminathan Aiyar;

Brazil: BRICS Cable aids cyber-security, on Euro-BRICS, September 20, 2013: … But in recent days, Brazilian officials have refocused emphasis on construction of the BRICS Cable, an underwater fibre-optic link with two endpoints in Fortaleza, Brazil and Vladivostok, Russia, and a connection from the former to Miami.
By the time it is completed, the BRICS Cable will be the third longest undersea telecommunications cable in the world, covering a distance of 34,000km …;

Russia and Euroland: Two key players in the centre of the global stage 2011-2014, in the GEAB, Oct 15, 2010;

EuroBRICS Newsletter, from leap2020.net, in english (also in french); Articles; Seminars;

The BRICS POST;

GEAB (Global Europe Anticipation Bulletin), monthly Newsletter edited by LEAP (Laboratoire Européen d’Anticipation Politique);

Editions ANTICIPOLIS (en, fr, de, es, it);

A Manual of political anricipation, by Marie-Hélène Caillol, Ed. Anticipolis (en, fr, de, es);

on en.wikipedia:

• BRICS is the acronym for an association of five major emerging national economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.[2] …; incl. See also; and External Links;
• Leap2020 is a think tank established to analyze and anticipate global economic developments from a European perspective and to publish a paid-subscription monthly economic forecast bulletin …;
  Founder: Franck Biancheri (11 March 1961 – 30 October 2012).