South Africa's land expropriation debates have caught the
eye of United States president Donald Trump.
On Thursday‚ Trump tweeted that he was looking into South
Africa's land seizures.
"I have asked Secretary of State @SecPompeo to closely
study the South Africa land and farm seizures and expropriations and the large
scale killing of farmers. 'South African Government is now seizing land from
white farmers' @TuckerCarlson @FoxNews‚" Trump tweeted.
During a question-and-answer session‚ Ramaphosa rejected a
proposal that the state should be the sole owner of all land in the country.
Earlier this week while addressing black commercial and
emerging farmers at a gala dinner at the Agribusiness Transformation
conference‚ Ramaphosa signalled that South Africa would become unstable if the
state did not speed up land reform.
“Many of you as farmers
would like access to land. It is necessary that we should do this to give
access to those among us that want to work the land‚ so that we can heal this
festering wound of the past. The only way to heal that wound is to give land to
our people‚” he said.
Even those people who have land are now beginning to
realise the injustices of the past‚ he said.
“It will also bring about stability … We have embarked on a
process of accelerated land reform. Some are getting terrified‚ some are even
sending false messages abroad . . . It [land expropriation without
compensation] has ignited a vigorous and welcomed debate.
“It has required that we confront the injustices of the
past. Even those people who have land are now beginning to realise the
injustices of the past.”
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