Don’t compare SA’s land reform to Zimbabwe’s, says ad hoc committee

The chair of parliament’s ad hoc committee redrafting the property clause of the constitution has rubbished suggestions that SA’s drive to address skewed land ownership echoes Zimbabwe’s land grabs of two decades ago.

“This is because in Zimbabwe we had Zanu-PF. It was not a multiparty [process] like ours. Here we can pride ourselves on not being a one party state; we are a multiparty democracy and we listen to all the voices. So there is no comparison between us and Zimbabwe,” he said. The committee met on Thursday to consider the nuts and bolts of how the clause should be redrafted. The draft bill will be published in the Government Gazette next week, opening the door for public participation. The committee further intends to publish an advert on January 2 that calls for public input until the end of that month. However, the DA says this will not give the public enough time to comment on the proposed draft.

The process might be different, but we know the end result will be the same... Most of the properties will be taken by the state and the connected few.

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