What does Kekana clan offer community for free land: iLIVE

11 March 2015 - 14:18 By S. J. van der Merwe
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What does the Kekana clan offers to the community in exchange of gratis land? Do they guarantee that the land will be as economically productive as it currently or potentially is, and will it have continuous economic value if the land claim is successful?

To my mind, this always results in nothing other that massive economic loss to a country which can least afford it.

Where is there as much as a tiny bit of evidence that land that had been claimed is productive in the true sense of the word?

Go and have a look at the “management” of SAPEKOE tea estate outside Tzaneen, Groot Letaba Landgoed, Tzaneen, The Down, Tzaneen, Croc Ranch, Phalaborwa, Rusland, Potgietersrus, Rembander Citrus Estate near the Punda Maria gate to the Kruger, the once incredibly productive Letsitele Valley, and many, many others – little remains of those once highly productive agricultural units.

The word “management” is something of a misnomer, as nothing is happening on these farms.

But still land is being handed out to the “disadvantaged” to ensure that politicians score points at the polls, and we produce less and less, become more and more dependant of other countries to import agricultural products.

Black people of South Africa – turn your hands around: let the palms point downwards and start working, not begging with palms upward.

Otherwise I must conclude that you deserve to be “disadvantaged”, and that you simply do not have the pride and backbone to rise to the challenge of our New South Africa: work, to be productive!

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