King Zwelithini partners with AfriForum over land
The partnership is to develop agriculture on the vast swatches of land controlled by the monarch
King Goodwill Zwelithini and Afrikaans nationalist group AfriForum are forming a partnership to develop agriculture on vast swathes of land the monarch controls through a trust, AfriForum’s CEO said on Tuesday. The move comes as the ANC takes steps to change the constitution to expropriate land without compensation while also seeking to provide security of tenure to people living on royal tribal lands — policies opposed by AfriForum and the king. “We are finalising a memorandum of understanding to make the agreement formal,” AfriForum CEO Kallie Kriel told Reuters.
King Goodwill Zwelithini controls 2.8-million hectares, a fragmented sub-tropical area the size of Belgium, under the Ingonyama Trust. “We have numerous members that have successful farms in the vicinity of the trust. The idea is to get a formula where there can be co-operation between our members and people living on the trust land to stimulate agricultural development,” Kriel said. Much of the farming in these are...
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