South Africa farm SEIZURE: ‘Take the land by FORCE!’ White farmers warned they MUST share
THE SOUTH African deputy president David Mabuza warned white farmers in the country they “have got to share” their lands as he vowed the Government will ensure there is “no land grab.”
By AURORA BOSOTTI
Express.co.uk
Thu, Aug 30, 2018
South Africa deputy prime minister David Mabuza said the ruling ANC Government would ensure there is no “land grab” from white farmers.
Plans to authorise the Government to take away farms from white farmers without compensation to redistribute the land were scrapped on Wednesday but Mr Mabuza warned the farmers at risk they must learn to “share”
Speaking to ITV News, the ANC politician said: “We are going to ensure that there’s no land grab but there should be a realisation from farmers, white farmers, that they’ve got to share the land.”
But while plans to take farms away were dumped, black activists remain firm in their demands for the land to be redistributed.
Peter Seolola from the Economic Freedom Fighters said: “We’ll take the land by force because we are in need of the land.
“We are not going to be apologising for that. We are in need of the land as like now.”
Nearly 72 percent of land in South Africa is owned by white farmers, but only eight percent of the country’s 56 million population is white, according to the Land Audit Report.
A law proposed in 1913, called the Native Lands Act, made it illegal for South Africans to acquire land beyond their reserves, known as “Homelands”.
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