11 October 2018 Editors Choice 3 Min Read

ONKGOPOTSE JJ TABANE: Thabo Mbeki's necessary provocation exposes the ANC on land

'It is fascinating that President Cyril Ramaphosa seems to be very much alive to the possible chasm that may be an unintended consequence of the wild and generalised approach to the issue'

in Politics by ONKGOPOTSE JJ TABANE

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Those who believe that the race nuances of this issue do not matter have memories that don't stretch to the Morogoro conference, where the race issue was clearly addressed in relation to the Freedom Charter's land clause.

A document of the ANC published after that historic conference in Tanzania in 1969 makes it clear that the ANC was cognisant that the redistribution of land would include all race groups. It makes bold to say that "restrictions of land ownership on a racial basis shall be ended and all lands shall be open to ownership and use by all people irrespective of race".

How the latter-day ANC does not see this as an issue it needs to address head-on boggles the mind.

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