South Africa’s new president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has pledged to return the lands owned by white farmers since the 1600s to the black citizens of the country.
Ramaphosa promised that land expropriation operations will not be a “smash and grab” exercise, adding that people “must see this process as an opportunity and not as a threat.”
“No-one is saying that land must be taken away from our people,”said the millionaire ex-businessman, who was sworn into office to succeed Jacob Zuma as president last week. “Rather, it is how we can make sure that our people have equitable access to land and security of tenure. We must see this process of accelerated land redistribution as an opportunity and not as a threat,” he added during aspeechto parliament on Tuesday.
The government plans to accelerate land redistribution through expropriation without compensation.
More than two decades after the end of apartheid in the 1990s, the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party is under pressure to tackle racial disparities in land ownership in South Africa. The country is home to over 50 million people, with whites owning most of the land.
According to a recent study, black South Africans constitute 79 percent of the population, but directly own only 1.2 percent of the country’s rural land. Meanwhile, white South Africans, who constitute 9 percent of the country’s population, directly own 23.6 percent of its rural land, and 11.4 percent of land in towns and cities, according to the Land Auditreport.
Ramaphosa, 66, said that land redistribution in South Africa would be handled properly. “In dealing with this complex matter, we will not make the mistakes that others have
Source: https://www.rt.com/business/419543-south-africa-land-compensation-whites/
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