Shifting quicksands of land drama

By now it must be obvious to even the most casual of observers of SA’s land drama that every effort at reforming land ownership has failed, the degree to which is matched only by the level of dismay expressed across the nation’s classes and races. Specifically, it has failed to reform and redress land ownership and it has failed to establish an agrarian economy.

It may be that, among the African National Congress (ANC) government’s many failures, the party’s undoing will stem from its continued failure to make good on its promises of equality in land rights.

When you consider that the denial of equality of land ownership to most South Africans is being continued as a matter of policy by the party, which continues to pronounce, as the Freedom Charter reads, that "the land shall be shared among those who work it", a nationwide land grab seems either inevitable or desirable.  More

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