The land reform programme also poses no threat to the economic sector, an upbeat Deputy President David Mabuza declared yesterday.
White commercial farmers are prepared to donate land to government to aid in its land reform programme.
Mabuza said the land was owned by different people, some of which was in the hands of different spheres of government, some in the hands of commercial white farmers. “This is a process of making land available to those who were deprived,” said Mabuza. “That, of course, must unleash the potential that was not there before because more people are going to own land and more people are going to join the sector.”
Professors Ruth Hall and Ben Cousins wrote: “Second, land redistribution must also transform patterns of land use and agricultural production so that land reform contributes in significant ways to eradicating poverty and uprooting the dire levels of inequality we live with. Mabuza also took aim at Mboweni, who isn’t known for shying away from controversy: his disagreement with “the phasing out of Afrikaans as one of the mediums of teaching at the University of Pretoria” and that “some” state-owned enterprises were not required being just two of his more provocative statements.
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