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Communist party calls for land reform
Sapa ^ | 14 March 2005

Posted on 03/14/2005 6:08:14 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe

It will take a hundred years to transfer 30% of agricultural land to black farmers at the current rate, South African Communist Party leader Blade Nzimande said on Monday.

Joint action was needed to accelerate the land reform process if the 30% target was to be reached within the next ten years -- as the Agri BEE draft charter stipulated, Nzimande said.

He was speaking at farmers' summit, held by the National Farmer's Union (Nafu), in Pretoria.

"The SACP Red October campaign aims to mobilise people to accelerate land reform to their benefit," Nzimande said.

Nzimande said his party wanted accelerated transfer of land and agrarian reform as well as access to basic services for farm workers and the poor. It also believed there needed to be a national land summit to explain why the transfer of land was so slow.

Nzimande said the people needed to know why banks were still financing farmers using the same methods used during apartheid, adding that the R1,5-billion committed by banks for developing the agricultural sector was not enough.

"One of the biggest obstacles facing land reform is the willing buyer-willing seller principal," Nzimande said.

He said with that principle, it was those who already owned the land -- and not the landless -- who benefited.

Nafu was created in the early nineties as a National African Federated Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Nafcoc) initiative and represents 4-million black farmers. - Sapa


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: landreform; southafrica

1 posted on 03/14/2005 6:08:15 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Why don't they just take it all at once, go through a famine, blame the West, get foreign aid, spend it on wine, women and song, then say it's not enough.

Repeat.


2 posted on 03/14/2005 6:09:43 PM PST by Guillermo (Vote for Pedro)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

How very Hugo Chavez.......


3 posted on 03/14/2005 6:10:22 PM PST by cmsgop ( RIP "Danny Joe Brown")
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Sounds like a collapse of the South African banking system is in the making.


4 posted on 03/14/2005 6:10:44 PM PST by henderson field
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To: Guillermo

You are right. REPEAT - you are right!


5 posted on 03/14/2005 6:17:16 PM PST by Raffus (Thanks to all Veterans for their service to our Country.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Haven't those communists heard about Smart Growth, property taxes, "concurrence", zonings, inheretance taxes etc? We've been using those socialistic practices for decades and it has worked in the US. The can have 100% of their lands to whereve they want it in a generation.


6 posted on 03/14/2005 6:38:19 PM PST by caisson71
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To: Tailgunner Joe
"South African Communist Party leader Blade Nzimande ".

Blade? That is quit a name for the man we should be taking seriously on land reform.
7 posted on 03/14/2005 6:43:58 PM PST by wmileo
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To: caisson71
"Haven't those communists heard about Smart Growth, property taxes, "concurrence", zonings, inheretance taxes etc? We've been using those socialistic practices for decades and it has worked in the US. The can have 100% of their lands to whereve they want it in a generation."

All the ANC Commies know is bloody revenge leading to chaos and starvation. After that it's the blame whitey game.
8 posted on 03/14/2005 6:48:27 PM PST by wmileo
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To: Guillermo

When will they ever realize that the Brits and Aussies were there for a reason......to insure productivity.


9 posted on 03/14/2005 6:49:54 PM PST by B4Ranch (The Minutemen will be doing a 30 day Neighborhood Watch Program in Cochise County, Arizona.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Is this story just a re-release of an article from the 1920's or 1930's?

I suppose not. I guess it's just that much of Africa is now experiencing the same time period everyone else went through almost 100 years ago.
10 posted on 03/14/2005 7:57:00 PM PST by spinestein
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