Jan van Riebeeck was blamed, and now the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) says it is the farmers’ fault that black people in South Africa are starving!
The EFF, at question time in the National Assembly, argued that black people in South Africa die of hunger, because the country’s agricultural land is in the hands of white farmers.
Parliamentarians could ask questions to ministers of the economic grouping, which includes the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform.
Mr. Nazier Paulsen, EFF MP, blamed Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, because “he did not discuss the unlimited land ownership from white farmers and how the land should be redistributed between black people.”
“It is true that in the Hex River Valley in the Western Cape, grapes are grown on 12 500 ha of land. A fraction, 48 ha belongs to black people. Urgent restitution is required, and when it comes to food security, this is the reason why blacks die of starvation, because of the country’s farmland being in the hands of white people.”
Zokwana said he agrees with Paulsen’s remarks, however, that the Government will make sure everything it does, is based on prudence and populist support. He believes that the valuable land is in the hands of a few white farmers, but there are also vast tracts of land that black citizens don’t use.
He made it clear that the EFF will not convince him of changing government policy and that there will not be land seized for redistribution.
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