TENURE CLAIMS
Farm worker evictions — the other side where the landowner suffers
Law works well on paper and in practice — but sometimes prejudices those who have given generously
Isn’t it tiresome how history relentlessly repeats itself? During apartheid, racists believed blacks were only capable of being "hewers of wood and drawers of water". Postapartheid, the neoracists believe all whites are abusive, exploitative and, ironically, racist. The truth is we’re all — black, white and a few shades in between — utterly human, replete with the worst and best characteristics, and the only difference between all of us is opportunity. During apartheid, lack of opportunity held back blacks and opportunity in the form of power gave racist whites the wherewithal to be exploitative and abusive. Robert Mugabe, who is a black Eugene Terre’blanche, epitomises this. This long preamble is necessary because I’m white and I’m going to deal with the touchy issue of farm worker evictions, which means I’m handicapped before I even begin. The assumption will be that I’m racist. The Extension of Security of Tenure Act is a laudable piece of legislation designed to protect handicap...
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