NATIONAL NEWS - Security of tenure was high on the list of recommendations to be sent to the ANC’s national executive committee (NEC) following the party’s land summit at the weekend in Boksburg, it announced yesterday at its Chief Albert Luthuli House headquarters in Johannesburg.

It’s a stance which is likely to draw ire from the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) as it moves to protect the traditional ownership of three million hectares of land under the Ingonyama Trust for Zulus, and the EFF over its idea that all land must be owned by the state.

The ANC could also find an unlikely ally in the DA which has repeatedly called for security of tenure for property owners.

It also admitted yesterday to failing on land reform.

“The [Motlanthe] high-level panel [on assessment of key legislation and acceleration of fundamental change] said the reasons for our failures particularly on land reform are misguided policies, insufficient budget, failure to align the laws with the constitution, corruption, inefficient government systems, failure to fully exploit constitutional space especially in the area of expropriation without compensation, incorrect interpretation of the constitution,” said NEC member Ronald Lamola at Luthuli House.

Read more on the Caxton publication, The Citizen.