tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16816866.post8969950960324921026..comments2024-02-29T02:10:56.878-08:00Comments on J O S H U A P U N D I T: Obama Supporters Do Rational DiscourseFreedom Fighterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13649470110087808596noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16816866.post-6781462895615256722008-10-20T14:02:00.000-07:002008-10-20T14:02:00.000-07:00why change?Because "Change" Worked So Well In Zimb...why change?<BR/><A HREF="http://www.mg.co.za/article/2008-10-20-anc-calls-for-rethink-on-land-redistribution" REL="nofollow">Because "Change" Worked So Well In Zimbabwee</A><BR/><BR/>ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe said the current situation where 87% of the country's land still resided in the hands of 50 000 white farmers, 14 years on from the end of whites-only apartheid rule, was "untenable".<BR/><BR/>"Land redistribution cannot depend on the willingness of those who own to sell," he said, adding there should be an "evaluation of land and expropriation thereof".<BR/><BR/>Land reform has become an increasingly contentious issue throughout Southern Africa since Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe embarked on a programme that has seen about 4 000 white farmers lose their land since the turn of the decade.<BR/><BR/>While Mugabe's policy has been blamed for much of Zimbabwe's economic turmoil, many Africans applaud his self-styled drive to correct imbalances stemming from the colonial era.<BR/><BR/>The failure of current land distribution legislation led the ANC to try implement a law this year which would speed up land reform through expropriation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com