THERE is a narrative that goes something like this, "in the beginning the whites stole the land." Since all land acquired during periods of colonial conquest must be the result of criminality, it follows those possessing land today, are criminals....
Tag: Land reform
Rainbow nation, time to call it quits?
THE New South Africa was founded as the culmination of a decades-long civil rights struggle. Dubbed the "Rainbow Nation" the country's emergence from apartheid, was manifest evidence of the ability of both black and white to solve collective problems, to put aside history and to move forward into...
Land debate: Adopting ideology over pragmatism doomed to failure
THERE is a current in South African politics which sees the land debate as the culmination of the freedom struggle. For these persons, undoing the constitutional guarantees of private ownership and security of tenure, both enshrined by the Constitution, in favour of ‘expropriation without compens...
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