Land bill a bid to woo voters
Thank you for allowing ordinary citizens a voice, and may your 2019 be prosperous, which is also my wish for fellow South Africans.
The government already owns huge tracts of land – more than they currently can develop – which they’ve owned for a long time, and done nothing with it.
Apparently they’re the country’s biggest land owner. The next biggest is said to be Transnet. Is this correct?
The ANC want to rush through this “land expropriation without compensation” bill to try to gain votes, in a desperate effort to keep themselves in power. They want to hoodwink the poorer people into believing that they will benefit from the bill.
Government already has in its possession massive land holdings – which they haven’t used yet – to house people. They allegedly bought some of it recently at inflated prices from corrupt friends. You can read the claims made in Crispin Olver’s book, How to Steal a City.
If they were competent, thousands (if not millions) more people would already be housed, and cared for, and fewer people would be losing their jobs.
Government promised to give people jobs. Exactly the opposite has happened and will continue to happen, because of its illogical governance methods.
The ruling party has spent so much time feathering its own nest, and employing incompetent buddies, that it hasn’t had the time – or personal incentive – to do the work people were elected and paid to do.
The problem is that silly people, fellow cadres and those who benefit from corruption, tell them they’re great. They don’t need land to help people – they’ve already got land. The ruling party needs expertise and a will to serve the people, and less talk and more action.
Our ANC “experts” have only managed to mess up our national economy so badly, that we have missed out on an international economic boom.
Vote them out in 2019. And let a new government show what can be done. They’ve had 24 years to make this country great for all its citizens. And they have failed badly.
Why is it that we’ve got such a bad international reputation with First World countries? Why is it that we perform so badly as a nation, while other developing nations are forging ahead of us? We used to punch far above our fighting weight, now we’re wallowing in inefficiency.
And why on earth are we allowing China to colonise our country, when we’re shouting that other “colonists” took over our country to our supposed disadvantage? Why then are we doing it again? Do we think the invitation to China will be a charity donation?
The reason we’re allowing China in, is because we need colonists to help us out of the Third World scenario.
Very concerned citizen. (With only one vote. But I’ll make it
count) Port Elizabeth