IFP youth leader hits out at Motlanthe
Shenge says ANC’s history is a farce
Those calling for the land under the Ingonyama Trust to be expropriated without compensation are indirectly advocating for black-on-black disposition.
This was a scathing criticism by IFP Youth Brigade chairman Mkhuleko Hlengwa during an interview with Sowetan at the party’s June 16 commemoration held at Durban’s Curries Fountain Stadium at the weekend.
“People who believe that the Ingonyama Trust must be put in the processes of land expropriation need their heads read,” said Hlengwa.
“If you do that you are advocating for black-on-black disposition. The land that is under the trust is in the hands of black people.”
The Ingonyama Trust, which administers land under the Zulu monarch, recently came under fire after a highlevel panel recommended it be scrapped.
The panel, chaired by former president Kgalema Motlanthe, in its findings said the Ingonyama Trust Act should be dissolved or amended, citing that the trust’s practises were irrelevant and inconsistent with the government’s land policy.
Hlengwa, an MP, lambasted Motlanthe, saying the panel’s recommendation was wrong and lacked a fundamental understanding of what the Ingonyama Trust was about.
“Frankly, former president Motlanthe was wrong to generalise. Where there are instances of abuse in the system then let’s deal with those. But to demonise the system in entirety was reckless.”
IFP president Mangosuthu Buthelezi used the gathering to take a swipe at a proposal by the Department of Basic Education that history should be a compulsory subject.
“I have no doubt that the history books introduced in schools in the next few years will contain a very simple narrative about our country’s past. This will be about the evil white racists regime overcome by righteous ANC in a moral victory that would have been bloodless, but [nothing to be said about] the IFP.”