Gwede Mantashe addressed a number of journalists in Johannesburg on 27 January regarding the contentious issue of land reform in South Africa. Amongst other things (which we discuss in a moment) he said: “The ANC has committed that land will be returned to our people and government must move with the necessary speed to put legislation in place to effect this.”
“Our people”? We need to express our very sincere gratitude to mr Mantashe for confirming that the ANC does not regard the white South African farmer as a part of the people of South Africa represented by the government of this lost land. Kindly tell us at the same time then why the white land owner should carry on paying taxes to a government who does not want him?
Land reform is becoming more of a burning issue by the day. The lily-livered Agri SA ever so politely applauded Gugele Nkwinti’s hairbrained scheme of ever farmer handing over 50% of his land to his employees and then providing them with everything they need to cultivate the land they received for nothing, with the profit going where….? Yeah. Exactly.
Now Mantashe comes with another plan which could only have come from the collective pool of intelligence of the ANC Leadership – a ceiling on land ownership. No more than 12000 hectares will belong to one person or entity.
If we carefully look at each and everyone of these schemes, we’ll find that they are basically all rooted in Communist ideology. Marxist ideas adapted for Zumaland purposes. And communism, exactly like prohibition, is a laudable idea, but when it comes to the practical it is a failure.
In all of this, trade union bosses and other shady characters always seem to hang around somewhere – exactly like flies on a… well, you get the idea. We witnessed the destructive effect of their presence in the Cape Winelands a year or two ago when the farm workers, instigated by these characters, started looting and burning the farms because of their unhappiness with the minimum wage.
Let us look at the scene, at the time of the farm unrest in the Cape Winelands:
One of these characters is Mr Nosey Pieterse, Secretary of Bawusa. At the same time he is chairperson of Lindiwe Wines receiving their grapes from the Robertson area where the average wage was between R63 and R75 per day! Apart from this, Lindiwe Wines received a welcome push from behind when R3 million was given by the National Empowerment Fund. And they are funded with who’s tax money? Yep. Right again.
Now, mr Nosey Pieterse’s trade union, Bawusa, shares an office with Bawasi (Black Assosciation of the Wine and Spirit Industry.) How is that for racism! Imagine forming a White Association of the Wine and Spirit Industry!? Nonetheless, Bawusa and Bawasi share an office. Not so strange, because guess who is President of Bawasi? Mr Nosey Pieterse again!
And he is but one of the shady characters in the whole scenario. The chair person of KWV is Marcel Golding, previously Deputy Chair of the National Union of Mine Workers. One of the Directors of KWV is Johny Copelyn, former Secretary of Cosatu’s Textile Union, SACTWU.
And where do we find the ANC guys? Tokyo Sexwale is now the owner of the Bloemendaal Estate and the Oude Kelder Estate and Vali Moosa owns Paardekloof. We hope they plan to give 50% away to the farm labourers and make sure that they keep no more than 12000 hectares of land.
Question therefore: Who benefits the most by keeping the land reform question such an issue? Or like a wealthy black man driving a huge BMW once said to me: “I wasn’t part of the struggle to now live in a hut and drive a Toyota.” Capitalist Communism a là ANC.
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