{"id":967130,"date":"2024-05-21T07:27:07","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T07:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=967130"},"modified":"2024-05-21T07:27:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T07:27:07","slug":"traditional-leaders-call-on-govt-to-fast-track-land-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/traditional-leaders-call-on-govt-to-fast-track-land-reforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Traditional leaders call on govt to fast track land reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">&lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span xml_lang=\"en-za\">Some traditional leaders in Limpopo<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\"> say that 30 years into democracy they have still not got back the land that the apartheid government had forcefully taken from them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">They were speaking during an engagement with former African National Congress (ANC) <\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">president\u00a0<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">Kgalema<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">\u00a0<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">Motlanthe<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\"> who was on an election campaign trail in\u00a0<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">Polokwane<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">These traditional leaders have called on government to fast-track the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/land-claimants-in-limpopo-accuse-government-of-wrongful-allocation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> land restitution<\/a> process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span xml_lang=\"en-za\">&#8220;What we want is our land back. Because since we waited for the land our ANC government promised us the land but we did not get it. We also want service delivery like jobs and water. It is painful that we do not have water where we stay.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related video | Give ANC another chance to govern: Motlanthe<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WppYTuvHG5M?si=sacKVbJ6M3-rl3VL\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: &lt; 1 minute Some traditional leaders in Limpopo say that 30 years into democracy they have still not got back the land that the apartheid government had forcefully taken from them. They were speaking during an engagement with former African National Congress (ANC) president\u00a0Kgalema\u00a0Motlanthe who was on an election campaign trail in\u00a0Polokwane. These [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":967131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[1909,246,2407,2626,270],"class_list":["post-967130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-african-national-congress","tag-anc","tag-kgalema-motlanthe","tag-land-restitution","tag-limpopo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}