Threats that land can be taken without compensation from legal owners is extremely dangerous, and as such could even lead to civil war.

FF Plus’s leader, Dr. Pieter Groenewald, said during the parliamentary debate on the acceleration of land reform.

According to Dr. Groenewald, the rhetoric of land grabbing without compensation is clear that there is an election in South Africa and that the theme of that election will be land. He says it appears that there is currently a competition between the ANC and the EFF on who can make the most promises over land to prospective voters.

“It is not true that whites only have land in the country through the war with blacks. In many cases, the land was given to or exchanged through the Voortrekkers.”

“There are currently more than 20 000 farms in the open market in the country where the price is up to 20% lower than the market value due to the drought. It proves that complaints against the willing buyer / willing seller principle are just misused as an excuse for the actual reasons why land reform fails. These reasons are incompetence and corruption among officials,” said Dr. Groenewald.

Read the original article in Afrikaans on Die Vryburger

South Africa Today – South Africa News