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S.Africa: Black Commercial farmers warn Landless Blacks

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Original Post Date: 2004-01-21  Posted By: Jan

From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 1/21/2004 9:23:20 AM
S.Africa: Black Commercial farmers warn Landless Blacks

[Note. This is funny. Black commercial farmers now fear the landless – and their argument is: “We grow the food”. Hmmmm… Whites were saying that too, but nobody cared. Jan]

Cape Town – Commercial farmers must not allow landless people to threaten them as they feed the nation, Motsepe Matlala, chairperson of the National African Farmers’ Union (Nafu), said on Tuesday.

Matlala was reacting to threats issued earlier by the Movement for Landless People.

“We will not stand for any disruptions on commercial farms,” he said.

According to him, Nafu and the landless people’s movement met this week to discuss the land issue.

He said that one needed to remember that South Africa’s land reform process was a delicate issue, and that it needed to be dealt with properly.

Meanwhile, the movement was still waiting for a reply from Minister of Agriculture and Land Issues, Thoko Didiza, on a proposal for a land congress, which was submitted at a recent meeting.

A landless people’s movement spokesperson, Thokokhile Hadebe, said on Tuesday that they were optimistic that a congress on the land issue would take place.

Agri SA was, however, not so optimistic. Japie Grobler, president of Agri SA, said that the fact that Didiza was even contemplating such a congress “was very negative”.

He said that such a congress should not be held simply because the movement sought one. “They are lawless and provoke lawlessness,” he said.

According to a statement issued by the movement, the proposed congress should not be seen as a pre-election campaign move but that it should lead to a comprehensive land reform process.

The movement said recently that 30% of agricultural land earmarked for landless people by 2015 was only a starting point in the redistribution process.

The movement felt that South Africa’s free buyer/free seller policy was a bigger failure than that of Zimbabwe.

Source: NEWS24.COM
URL: http://www.finance24.co.za/Finance/Economy/0,…br>