Zimbabwe-style land invasions could become "inevitable" if farm evictions persisted and farmers resisted change in land ownership, labour organisations have warned.
The slow pace of land redistribution has led to sporadic land occupations around the country.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) in the Western Cape and the Bawsi Agricultural Workers’ Union of SA (Bawusa) on Tuesday threatened to bring farming to its knees if evictions continued.
Cosatu claimed there had recently been "mass evictions" on farms throughout the country and especially in the Western Cape.
The union federation said the evictions were the unintended consequence of land reform proposals announced recently by Rural Development and Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti.
He proposed long-term farm workers be given a 50% equity share of the farms on which they worked, to speed up land reform. READ MORE
Source: www.bdlive.co.za
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