Public Service Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi has dismissed suggestions that the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) panel on SA felt the country has not done enough in land reform.

Fraser-Moleketi said yesterday it should be noted that during the presentation of the report at the AU summit, the lead panellists made it very clear that taking into account a legacy of 350 years of colonialism and apartheid, there had been remarkable progress in the past 13 years in SA in all areas of review by peers, says a report on The Citizen site. The Minister also raised the possibility that the report might be published sooner than expected. The review panel felt the stipulation that the report could not be released for six months after review, should mean within six months. ‘There was a consensus that six months was a rather long time, and the report should be made available once the amendments, if any, arising from the actual review meeting, were done. I think South Africa will hopefully see it before six months.’
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The DA wants the report released immediately. Seremane said even though the Ghanaian President had said the report should be released to the South African public, the South African Government had said it would only do so next month. The DA’s Joe Seremane said the government had been ‘stage-managing’ the APRM process to restrict what information was released to the public, according to a report on The Citizen site. This limited ‘the transparency and openness of the APRM process, which is contrary to the spirit of the report and the process’.
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