GUGILE NKWINTI: All land going back to 1652 must be returned to the people
'Nobody was asleep when land was taken. It was taken through brutal wars of colonialism'
Speech by Gugile Nkwinti, land expropriation debate The ANC unequivocally supports the principle of land expropriation without compensation, as moved by the EFF. We may disagree on the modalities but we agree on the principle. There is no question about that. We are committed to implementing the resolution of the ANC which resonates very well with the motion led by the commander in chief, CIC, of the EFF. Let’s just put this into context. In the 1930s already, the first president of the ANC, Dr John Langalibalele Dube, said the following: There are only one-million of you and there are about six-million of us; and one-million of you have three-fourths of the land, and six-million of us have one-fourth of the land. That is not fair ... In asking for more land I do not think we are asking for charity; we have contributed to the development of SA with our labour ... we have done our share in that respect, and in the matter of taxation, both direct and indirect. That was Dr Langalibale...
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