Government must ensure land is allocated to individuals who have the capacity to use it, the African Farmers’ Association of SA (Afasa) said on Tuesday.
“We are saying to the minister (of Rural Development and Land Reform Gugile Nkwinti), we need to have criteria for the farmers’ selection,” Afasa president Mzamo Mlengana said in Pretoria at the end of the association’s summit.
“When you select a farmer who is not a farmer, it works to the negative of what we are doing. It opens us and government to criticism. Once again, perception will be ‘look at the black farmers who have been given land, it’s not working’.”
He said a well thought-out land redistribution process would not threaten national food security and should benefit the country. READ MORE
Source: www.citizen.co.za
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