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'It's land reform or land grab'

Nov 10, 2009 10:29 PM | By BRENDAN BOYLE

South Africans must become obsessed with land reform if they want to avoid urban land grabs and the chaos that has destroyed Zimbabwe, Gugile Nkwinti, the minister of rural development and land reform, warned yesterday.

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Responding to questions at a news conference in Cape Town, he said the government's plan to transfer 30% of white-owned farmland to blacks by 2014 was just a beginning.

"No, 30% is not enough. Thirty percent by 2014 was just to demonstrate progress," Nkwinti said.

He confirmed that the deadline was under review "for practical reasons", but warned that failure to create equity in land ownership could destroy the country.

"Yes, we are obsessed, actually. People out there, they really talk about justice and redress and, at some point, you can see that this is an area that has a great potential for polarisation in South Africa.

"You have seen it happen elsewhere - next door. Our obsession is about obviating that polarisation materialising in South Africa, and all South Africans must be obsessed with that question...about obviating the calamity which would come about with polarisation in this country," he said.

Nkwinti said the distribution pattern inherited from white rule was changing as many of the 87% of the people who were restricted to 13% of the land began to move to the cities.

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Nov 11 2009 12:46:51 AM
airbud
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When were you bunch of pontificatring idiots going to ask Algeria for advice?

Considering they have tried almost all combinations of state and private ownership over the last fifty years since the Colons fled after independence and left the natives to run the farms.

Or how about asking the old Warsaw Pact countries how to redistribute state farms to private owners? And how to break up collectivized farms to smalholder ownership?

Or dont you know anything about land redistribution in Independent African countries and dont talk to White People, even if they did give the ANC guns, money and training in the liberation struggle?

http://country-studies.com/algeria/land-tenure-and-reform.html

http://www.fao.org/docrep/007/AD878E/AD878E05.htm
Nov 11 2009 01:15:04 AM
Tackler
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Just do the land-grab. Be done with it. Get the Zimbabwefication over and done with. That's what you want -- so stop faffing about.
Nov 11 2009 01:17:26 AM
PinkAndProud
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That's right Comrades. Turn the farms into squatter camps with no food production.
Nov 11 2009 07:12:08 AM
beezlebum
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The Blacks can have Sandton. Send the Whiteys to District 9 - Christopher Johnson will be back in 3 years to save them.
Nov 11 2009 07:36:44 AM
DDarko
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First objective of African politics: drag everyone into the same sewer.
Second objective: cry racism and blame the white man.
Third Objective: watch your people starve and cry for the old days in secret.
Nov 11 2009 08:10:23 AM
ugen
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Yes, lets give the farm to the blacks and then we can become like Zim.

Africans will always be beggers because of their mentality
Nov 11 2009 08:17:33 AM
The Wit Ou
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There has been many projects already undertaken where we sell/give our land back to the Government to be farmed by you blacks. All of them have collapsed.

You are a lazy bunch.

You are also not prepared to learn from us.

We have been farming for decades.
We have been successful.

Only drought and stock theft has hindered us.

Nov 11 2009 09:16:27 AM
Rover
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yay, lets make our country like zimbabwe, then we can equally distribute the food aid equally among ourselves,
"two cups of grain please, need to feed my family of 4, used to be 8 but the rest died of hunger"
Nov 11 2009 09:37:18 AM
Billy Hill
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Just burn these oinks out and put them on ships so that they can find another country to oppress.
Nov 11 2009 09:37:51 AM
Billy Hill
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They learned nothing from the experience of their fellow oinks in Zimbabwe who failed to transform, resisted land reform and finally were betrayed by their British soul mate oink government who reneged on the undertaking to fund land reform at market prices.


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