Time for land issue to end

I think that it is time now for this land expropriation without compensation issue to come to an end.

On eNCA news, channel 403 on DStv, on Monday it was said that the previous presidents would now be called in to give their input to the matter.

What do you think Jacob Zuma is going to say?

In my opinion, to take land from one South African and giving it to another South African is like shooting a zebra.

Whether you shoot the animal in the white stripe or in the black stripe, you are still killing the animal.

I am, as we were labelled, a coloured.

We were also oppressed under the previous regime, the National Party, but we did not get our land in a raffle or a Christmas lucky dip box.

We paid for it and we paid very dearly for it until we were dispossessed of it, which caused a lot of heartache and pain to us, our parents, our grandparents and our greatgrandparents.

A fact to remember and be noted is the Khoisan (coloureds, us) were found here in SA when Jan van Riebeeck landed at the Cape.

History tells us that the Xhosa people filtered through from central Africa by bartering with cattle and settled at the coast, but I suppose, conveniently, that history is probably not being taught in the schools anymore, but history now only from 1994.

President Cyril Ramaphosa should now take a stand and shut EFF leader Julius Malema up, once and for all.

How he is going to do it, I don’t know, but I would want to suggest he does it. Malema is calling for war. Does he even know what war means and what it does? N J, land issue follower

Port Elizabeth