IF AGRICULTURE Minister Senzeni Zokwana was contemplating a career as a negotiator, he had better think again.
It is Negotiation 101 that you do not reveal what it is you really need to achieve, as opposed to which demands are merely tactical. Mr Zokwana does not seem to get that: he told Reuters last week that the 12,000ha cap on land ownership that President Jacob Zuma announced in his state of the nation speech was just a "negotiating tactic".
That should stop anyone taking the government’s proposal seriously. Yet far from making things better, it is likely to make them worse, further eroding land reform efforts and SA’s beleaguered agricultural sector. The government has floated a variety of proposals aimed at transforming the sector, from a ban on ownership by foreigners, the 12,000ha ceiling, and a suggestion that farmers should transfer 50% of their farms to their workers. More
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