LETTER: Land rent can benefit all South Africans
Land cannot be distributed equally physically, so the locational advantage should be collected instead
Peter Bruce rightly infers that white South Africans should acknowledge the injustices of exploitation by capital and land acquisition during the colonial era. The latter were described by Tembeka Ngcukaitobi in The Land Is Ours while chronicling the epic contestations by early 20th-century black lawyers of moves to dispossess blacks of land both before and after the notorious 1913 Native Land Act.
In the process he also laid bare the failure of the British to ensure the establishment of basic principles of justice in SA after their victory in the Anglo-Boer War. Bruce then asks if there is a way whereby South Africans can talk to each other across our prejudices and fears...
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