PETER BRUCE: Nobody fought to live on state-owned land
'A stakeholder economy, a stakeholder democracy, a stakeholder market is where we need to be'
There's a quote that does the rounds that is both fake and somehow profound. The last version I saw was attributed to Ken Peters, a professor of economics in the Czech Republic. He probably doesn't exist. "The danger to South Africa is not Jacob Zuma, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency," says "Ken". "It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of a Zuma presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president."That speaks to me. We all caused Zuma, directly and indirectly. And we are all fools, as the debate on land reform, just out of the blocks, is beginning to show. Over at the EFF, its leader, Julius Malema, insists that not only will white people lose their land, but all black people too. He wants to nationalise all the land and told a TV interviewer last week that "every title deed will be meaningless and the state will be the custodian of the la...
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