Agriculture Minister Tina Moemat-Pettersson
Agriculture Minister Tina Moemat-Pettersson has offered an olive branch to organized agriculture by acknowledging that without white commercial farmers, neither transformation nor food security is possible.
“We recognize that without organized agriculture we cannot have a turnaround strategy for agriculture in this country,” Joemat-Pettersson said. The South African government aims to return to its status as a net exporter, while at the same time putting 30% of farmland into Black hands by 2014.
Joemat-Pettersson went on to assure the agricultural sector that assistance would not be confined to subsistence farmers and that commercial agriculture was vital to the department’s strategy.
She noted however that where farm workers’ human rights were found to be abused, this would be dealt with. The government would be strict in enforcing the security of tenure of farm workers and their conditions of employment.
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They always mention this BS about farmers abusing workers’ rights. The fact of the matter is 3,060 white farmers have been murdered and in some cases their workers too.
South Africa has some of the strictest labour laws – employees being abused is dealt with in any case, in any environment (the penalties are severe) and deserves no mention in the farm murders / commercial farmers case study.
Typical ANC commies – trying to suggest farmers are getting the short end of the stick because they abuse workers.
No, the ANC will not “force” white farmers off their land. They merely sit with folded arms watching them being slaughtered.
Why pay for land you can get for free?
“The government would be strict in enforcing the security of tenure”
Maybe I should take the Land Tenure Act to the Constitutional Court to see how the government can infringe on my property rights as a farm owner. For those overseas — Briefly the law allows a farm worker who has worked for you for more than 10 years to claim the land he is living on as his — land which you own, part of your farm!
Majority always rules in every land, and at every point in history.