FAWU - Response to the White Paper On A Marine Fisheries Policy For South Africa
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- Title
- FAWU - Response to the White Paper On A Marine Fisheries Policy For South Africa
- Creator
- FAWU
- Date
- 1997
- Description
- This document has been written to inform Deputy President Thabo Mbeki of FAWU's objections to the above-mentioned White Paper. It also includes FAWU's recommendations for changing the policy. The fishing industry in South Africa is an Apartheid creation. Like other aspects of our society, it needs to be completely transformed and restructured. Currently, the industry is marked by: Monopolised control of every aspect of the fishing value-chain: from production to processing to marketing to distribution; Highly restricted access to the resource by historically disadvantaged members of our society; and Disempowered communities who originally had unrestricted access to marine resources. The above conditions have been created by a process of systematically violating the human rights of fishers and fishing communities. A new White Paper on Fisheries has the potential to change this in a sustainable economic and environmental way. Unfortunately, the 1997 White Paper on Fisheries does not adequately address the legacy of history. In fact, there are more similarities in this Paper to the 1988 Sea Fisheries Act than there is to any framework of transformation. One such framework was put forward by the Fishing Policy Development Committee (FPDC). However, it seems that key aspects of the FPDC's recommendations were ignored. This is unacceptable.
- Format
- Language
- English
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/118385
- Archive
- Cory Library for Humanitites Research
- Provenance
- The item is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research, Rhodes University, on behalf of the Labour Research Service
- Extent
- 7 pages
- Rights
- Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU)
- Rights Holder
- Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU)
- Use/re-use
- The materials are made available explicitly for research and educational purposes. Any use of these materials must be cleared with the Labour Research Service.
- Publisher
- Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU)
- Item sets
- General Materials
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