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Africa Subsaharan
South Africa to fast-track land (re)distribution
2008-02-17
Social Development Minister Zola Skweyiya said efforts to speed up land redistribution were part of President Thabo Mbeki's "apex priorities", announced in his State of the Nation speech. More attention would be paid to supporting the beneficiaries of restituted and redistributed land, to ensure it was productive.
The government intends acquiring 5-million hectares of land next year in an effort to have 30 percent of agricultural land in the hands of black farmers by 2014, according to Agriculture Minister Lulu Xingwana. She told a press briefing in Cape Town on Thursday that currently black farmers owned 4.7 percent of farmland. "We are saying that if we acquire five million next year we will be on target."

This would go to about 10 000 black farmers.

Xingwana said she thought this target was realistic and that strategies previously used were being reviewed. "We also need financial resources. The willing buyer, willing seller principle is not working. The public works minister is tabling the expropriation act, so we hope that with all these we can fast-track the process."

Xingwana said regulation of foreign land-ownership was a certainty. "At this point in time we definitely agree that we have to regulate foreign land-ownership. We will look at the options and international best practices." She hoped that half of the outstanding land claims would be settled by the end of this year. These were mostly rural claims held up by disagreements between tribal chiefs over where boundaries lay, and white farmers disputing the validity of claims.

Expropriation would be used to settle claims not finalised by the end of 2008, Xingwana said.

Social Development Minister Zola Skweyiya said efforts to speed up land redistribution were part of President Thabo Mbeki's "apex priorities", announced in his State of the Nation speech. More attention would be paid to supporting the beneficiaries of restituted and redistributed land, to ensure it was productive.
Posted by:Seafarious

#12  They learned nothgin from Zimbabwe. Then again, true believer collectivists in the mold of the Mandelas never do seem capable of comprehending events that run counter to their doctrine (communism). Its as if they are such congitivie shock that their minds shut down in denial.



Posted by: OldSpook   2008-02-17 21:56  

#11  The prelude to famine.
Posted by: Large Phusons8918   2008-02-17 20:25  

#10  The prelude to ethnic cleansing of whites.
Posted by: Jomosing Bluetooth8431   2008-02-17 17:12  

#9  South Africa plans to fast-track land redistribution, 5-million hectares of land next year.

1 hectare = 2.4710439 acres or figure 2.5 acres.

Once again a Cause-Celeb will lead to a real disaster with deadly consequences like Zimbabwe.

The World is far to complex for Liberalism.
Posted by: RD   2008-02-17 15:40  

#8  The real problem is handing the land over to Black "Non Farmers".

Make a rule, farm or leave, enforce it.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2008-02-17 14:14  

#7  I think the whites don't need to worry about being treated as equals by the blacks in South Africa. Though the ones who remain will become that or deceased.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2008-02-17 12:12  

#6  "I have given my life to try to bring unto them the advantages which our civilisation must offer, but I have become well aware that we must retain this status; white, the superior, and they the inferior; for whenever a white man seeks to live among them as their equal, they will either destroy him or devour him, and they will destroy all his work; and so for any existing relationship or for any benefit to this people let white men from anywhere in the world who would come to help Africa remember that you must continually retain this status; you the master, and they the inferior, like children that you would help or teach. Never fraternise with them as equals, never accept them as your social equals ; or they will devour you; they will destroy you."- Dr. Albert Schweitzer, winner of the 1952 Nobel Prize for peace, in his 1961 book, From My African Notebook.


Posted by: Besoeker   2008-02-17 11:11  

#5  WTF?
Cant they look at their next door neighbor and evaluate the effectiveness of such a policy?

Oh, but I forgot, it isn't the policy, it's western plots and crooked businessmen/food hoarders that have caused the shortage in Zimbabwe.
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2008-02-17 10:49  

#4  Zimbobland here we come!
Posted by: 3dc   2008-02-17 10:35  

#3  Xingwana said regulation of white foreign land-ownership was a certainty. "At this point in time we definitely agree that we have to regulate white foreign land-ownership.
Posted by: Besoeker   2008-02-17 08:45  

#2  Tired of eating?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2008-02-17 07:34  

#1  "Attn! Mr. Farmin B Hard to the black courtesy phone"
Posted by: Frank G   2008-02-17 05:15  

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