David Mabuza: SA is a land of abundance and can provide for everyone
In the context of the land debate, deputy president David Mabuza says SA is a land of abundance and can provide for everyone. Using Heritage Day on Sunday to deal with fears over land reform, Mabuza emphasised there is enough to go around, to share and to end poverty and that the country needs to be united. Mabuza is the chair of the interministerial committee on land reform appointed by President Cyril Ramaphosa. "It is understandable that human beings are prone, in times of national strife, in times of bitter socioeconomic hardship, in times of hard debates about land reform, to retreat easily into narrow nationalist, racial and ethnic enclaves," he said in Kokstad. "However, I stand in front of you on this day to state with conviction that this path we have chosen, is the correct one." This is the path which would unite the country, he said. The country has been seized with heated debate on land reform since the ANC conference in December 2017 when it resolved to investigate whet...
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