Posted on 02/11/2002 3:31:03 AM PST by backhoe
Cape Town - President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday the country's programme to restore land to thousands of families evicted under apartheid would be completed in three years. "We intend, within the next three years, to complete the land restitution process, which is a critical part of our land reform programme," Mbeki said in the text of a speech prepared for delivery to parliament. Last week the Commission on Restitution of Land Rights said 36 354 land claims were projected to be settled in the three years to the end of March this year. Some 69 000 claims have been lodged with the commission. The commission, hamstrung by a shortage of funds, has been criticised by opposition parties and landless blacks for moving too slowly to restore land taken from them by the white-minority government under apartheid, raising fears of a Zimbabwe-style land grab. The commission has said it has streamlined its process to speed up land restoration and avert a similar situation to that in Zimbabwe where self-styled liberation war veterans have seized hundreds of white-owned farms.
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Devolution's a bitch.
Think FIRST; then post.
Think FIRST; then post.
Sorry, I didn't know you lived in South Africa or that your family had been murdered by my internet post.
My humble condolences despite your silly over-reaction.
Yes, your post was VERY " silly " , and hurtful. How would YOU like it, if I said that YOU should lose your property and possiblly your life ? That IS what YOUR post said. It is akin to saying that ALL American " deserve " to be murdered by OBL's terrorists.
BTW, I am NOT the only FREEPER who has concerns about what is happening in South Africa and/or Zimbabwe. But, I guess that as long as you aren't personally touched by an event, it doesn't matter at all to you. That's pathetic !
I could tell you that you misinterpreted my post, but given the fact that your head is about to explode I won't try that right now. I'm worried that I'll trigger another unibomber type response.
Ping me when you've calmed down and we can talk nice.
Pssst I think what's happening in SA is horrid
We're so fortunate here in the United States. Please accept my sincere sorrow nopardons for what your family is facing.
Your personal attacks are childish, and this reply, is like the behavior , of the Saudi Prince, who gave a check to Rudy, and then blasted America.
If I am upset about this article, and I am ( it was I who asked backhoe to post it, since I can't do HTML well, on a WebTV ) , it is with good reason. Maybe you would understand , if you were in the same situation. I wish , after reading your vile posts, that it was you and YOUR family; instead of me and mine. Unlike you, I would have had honest compassion for you and your's.
You wouldn't know a thing about what I think or say. What you're going on is literally a one sentence post that you've totally taken out of context.
I haven't had the chance to discuss anything after that, since your responses afterward have been a series of hysterical rants.
I'm starting to realize that I'm talking to a woman, which explains a lot. Take a few deep breaths and try to control yourself there sweetcheeks. I'm not Winnie Mandela necklacing your family members, I'm a poster on an internet discussion. Get some perspective.
Now go to your corners and come out and shake hands and start all over again. Please =^)
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