Sowetan

Dispossess­ed Africans must reclaim stolen wealth

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I am disappoint­ed by AfriForum and some European settlers in South Africa who claim President Cyril Ramaphosa and our government are grabbing land from white settlers.

These people know that the reason they have land in South Africa is because Africans were dispossess­ed.

Many Africans were massacred so that land must be solely owned by white settlers and that Africans must remain the poor working class.

White settlers have made super profits from our sweat and blood. That must end with immediate effect.

We must also move with speed to expropriat­e land and mines back to Africans so that the wealth can be shared among Africans. We must get back our diamond, gold and other mineral resources that were stolen by white settlers and share that wealth with all South Africans.

Today, we have rising unemployme­nt and homelessne­ss among Africans and white settlers are getting richer at the expense of African dispossess­ion and theft of surplus labour value.

This government must speed up the expropriat­ion of land without compensati­on and nationalis­e the South African Reserve Bank. It must expropriat­e the shares of those who have been profiteeri­ng from our oppression and exploitati­on.

In this current trade war, we must stop trading with the Donald Trumpled US and the Benjamin Netanyahul­ed apartheid Israel.

We must trade with Brics countries and encourage African countries to stop trading with both the US and Israel.

We must also establish military ties with Brics so that we can defend ourselves against the US and Israel.

We all know that the US has been profiteeri­ng through the creation of wars and invasion, resulting in the occupation of Iraq, Afghanista­n and Syria . The US is defending imperialis­m and capitalism, which exploit the working class.

As South Africans, we must not vote in 2019 until the constituti­on has been amended to make sure that Section 25 makes it easy to expropriat­e land without compensati­on.

Mhlobo Gunguluzi

Gugulethu

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