The African Farmers' Association of South Africa (Afasa) has weighed into the land redistribution debate saying that the government's 50/50 share proposal made no sense.
The government recently proposed that farms be split 50/50, with farmworkers owning half of the land they worked on.
"We reject 50/50. It makes no sense to us and I don't think it makes sense to workers too. We have just said to the minister, we are going to re-look at the issues of land ceilings and see how to make those ceilings stronger or how to make the debate around land ceilings stronger to the effect that it becomes a policy," Afasa president Mike Mlengana said in an SABC report.
The ANC's Gwede Mantashe meanwhile said that farmers should not panic on the proposal. He said that the debate on the proposal would continue until April next year. He also called for more ideas on the topic to be put forward.
"I'm not worried about people who are complaining, I get excited when people throw ideas. So we say this cannot work, but we think this idea can work, that is what is important," the ruling party's secretary general said.
Source: www.business.iafrica.com
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