Taking a page right out Robert Mugabe’s playbook, Jacob Zuma — head of South Africa’s ANC ruling party — has stated SA must step up their land reform program. Mugabe implemented land reform in Zimbabwe in 2000 and almost everyone attributes the “re-appropriation” of white-owned farms to landless blacks to the current state of the country.
Thousands of poor blacks are still waiting for farms promised to them by the ANC, which sees land redistribution as a cornerstone of black majority rule.
“We would not be transforming our country if we do not end the marginalisation of rural areas. That is why we will work to intensify our land reform programme,” Zuma said in a speech at a metal workers union conference.
Land restitution is a sensitive issue in South Africa, troubled by the decline in agriculture in neighbouring Zimbabwe where white commercial farmers were often violently evicted by President Robert Mugabe’s government.
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