Politicians offside on issue of land
I consider myself very sober minded and sensible. With that in mind, there are certain things I simply can’t tolerate.
One of them is when someone is insulting my intelligence. The issue of land has been a burning issue since the dawn of democracy. We’re in the 24th year of the so-called new South Africa and yet our people are still landless.
Our people are still poorly paid labourers on white-owned farms. Some have paid with their lives after getting murdered by racist farmers.
I watched a video where the late AWB leader Eugene Terreblanche was dissing black people’s ability to work. He was blowing hot air like many other racists. The same Terreblanche was killed by black labourers while fighting over wages.
During the expropriation without compensation debate, Cope’s Mosioua Lekota and the DA’s Thandeka Mbabama displayed what can only be described as extreme boss’s pet mentality. Lekota even invoked the spirit of the late Bram Fischer.
I’m sure if Fischer were still alive he would be appalled by the slow distribution of land.
Mbabama and Lekota played to the gallery, much to excitement of intransigent whites in parliament.
Well, if Lekota thinks by asking for a share of land we’re dominating whites, I’m at a loss for words.
White farmers have used every trick in the book to frustrate land redistribution by pricing land out of reach. If Mbabama doesn’t know that, she can only be playing dumb. Richardson Mzaidume
Pimville