And we are starting to hear messages that call on the leaders from the landowner communities to join together with the leaders of the homeless communities to form Residents Associations in each ward, and to start real negotiations soon. Left to its own devices, the Council is incapable of achieving progress on housing and land reform. The farce unfolding in Bokfontein about the transit camp completely fails to meet the needs of either the local landowners or the homeless people. A forum comprising two representatives from each ward, one each from the homeless and the landowning communities in that ward, will be too strong to be ignored. Unless we come together and define common ground as the residents of this area we must expect to continue to be treated with contempt by the authorities.
Democracy requires our active participation.
Maybe as we talk together we will find common ground about how we want to be governed and managed at local level, irrespective of the results of the demarcation process. And that's about it for this week Boet. We do not wish to have another out-of towner again, and we expect the first selection criterion to be the ability to talk seTswana, the language of the majority of the homeless people whose needs are the focus of this appointment. And maybe the Ratepayer associations will join in the discussions.