Agrarian change should support sustainable food production, expanding the productivity model of smallholder farming and maintaining a vibrant, competitive agricultural sector, defending and advancing the rights and economic position of farmworkers and farm dwellers, including through improved organisation and better enforcement of existing laws. We must work together with progressive movements and organisations in building forums and structures through which rural people can articulate their demands and interests. It is undeniable that a large percentage of people who live in the rural areas are women and experience the harsh reality of poverty on a daily basis. The situation has to change. We as the ANC-led government are committed to putting in place programmes that will seek to develop the rural areas. Central to the development programme will be job creation through industrial development and opportunities for small businesses alongside land reform. We will focus on the provision of water, clinics, schools, flushing toilet facilities as outlined by the President in the state of the nation address, electricity, telephones and roads. Our role in this regard includes leading processes of land reform, promoting sustainable change in socioeconomic relations and supporting the goal of the growth of the developmental and rural economy.