SA Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti
South African Land reform minister Gugile Nkwinti says 90% of the farmland it has given to Blacks to run are failing, and may be forced to repossess the properties if they continue to not produce.
The ANC-led government has bought nearly 60,000 sq km (23,000 sq miles) of land from farmers under the “willing-buyer-willing-seller” program, and given it away to Blacks who allegedly suffered under apartheid.
“The farms – which were active accruing revenue for the state – were handed over to people, and more than 90% of those are not functional,” Nkwinti told the BBC last March.
The ANC set a goal of buying and redistributing a third of White-owned land, but now has to scrap the plan and focus on training the Blacks who now farms on how to run them.
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And this is surprising……why??
There is no affirmative action in nature. Nature is obviously racist.
Give a man a couple of rand and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to beg and he’ll suck all the wealth out of northern hemisphere nations until the bleeding heart PC liberals are begging themselves. What a stupid idea to give away productive land to people who don’t know how to work it based on entitlement. It’s like giving positions in government to idiots expecting them to learn their jobs.
Oh wait, that happened, didn’t it….LOL
And you’re perfectly correct in asking JJ and your comment on AA (don’t forget BEE, doesn’t that stand for Bafoons Entertaining Enrichment?)
Exactly JoeJersey… and then nature must, by implication, also be White :-))
What ignorant, and racist statements being made by previous individuals. You so easily forget that these people were robed of their land by their white masters hundreds of years ago. I'm sure back then, they were quite good in tilling the land, and raising their crops. But after being enslaved by their white masters, and made ignorant of all knowledge…The only type of jobs available to them were as servants. After hundreds of years of being made to feel inferior, stupid, and good for nothing… How could you expect them to all of a sudden have the good sense to know how to do anything worthwhile. After hundreds of years of suffering at the hand of their white slave masters, it may take them a hundred years to regain the confidence to believe that they can be whom God meant them to be. To know that they are made in His image and are capable of doing ANYTHING!!!
Prior to White settlement in Southrn Africa there was no agriculture as such. The indiginous people were pastoralists and foragers.
So are the Jews.
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I did not notice a racist remark except for the one by Magoo.
Ignorance is WANTING land and not knowing what to do with it.
Ignorance is making the statement that White people stole land hundreds of years ago from blacks – poor blacks – they the Blacks stole the land from the Khoisan hundreds of years ago. How far back does Magoo want to go to point out ownership of South African land? Only as far back as he has been told, or is convenient?
Shame Magoo your igorance is confirmed via your defence of the stupid. Instead, get off your begging backsides and start generating wealth, Start helping mankind instead of always blaming everyone else for your poor state of intelligence and conditions.
Carharodon
Carcharrodon, I'd like to see how you would behave after being made a slave for just a couple of years. Where, not just your livelihood, but your very life depended on my mood for that particular day. Let's see, I could sleep with your wife, if I allowed you to have one. If you had kids, and they could make me a nice profit, well, I'd just quickly sell them off, with no protest on your part.
Mr Carcharrodon, I'm not sure if you could possibly understand this, but don't be so quick to judge a people who's journey you either don't want to understand because of your ingrained bias, or just aren't mentally willing to open your heart and mind and empathize with someones suffering.
Understand this, who you are as a person today, for the most part, depends on those who've preceded you. You're just a continuation of their journey. You can either improve on it, or just maintain. But at least you(As a people) don't have to start from the bottom floor.
Most of us did at some stage; serfdom was rife in Europe. You are suggesting that people who have been given land should be allowed to sit and look at it for another 20 generations while their countrymen starve. African farmers only practised subsistence farming (for that they need much less land) before Van R arrived and sold produce to the ships of the Dutch East India Company. I empathise with those who have taken on more than they can manage, but in 17 years they could have educated themselves and tilled some land. This was done by others before modern machinery existed. So fault actually lies with a government that couldn’t be bothered to help landowners learn what it’s all about and landowners who sit and wait for something to happen by itself.
Although the Blacks had been slaves the government of S.A. had all the knowledge in the world to help run the farms.
All they had to do was implement a gradual handover from the capable whites to the useless exslaves,not rocket science.
If maagoo and his kind are so worried about slavery why does no one talk about the millions of slaves in africa today?
Anon-e-mouse? Africans dont have a millions of slaves. Everybody who takes care of the catles do get paid, prove it dont just say it. I am as Black African as i am and i am proud of it to be an Ovambo that never starve because of our traditional Mahangu crops we can cope. This crops are still unfamiliar to many African people, ask any SADF veteran who use to bag the locally the Black people for food in their Villages. I hope that one day these wonderful Mahangu crops and watermelon of red and golden ones can also be produce in mass production so that we can make money as some our people do sold Internationally instead of locally.
Dave, are u out of your mind. Local villages still cope to farm their land without your made up 90% nonces for the fools so stop the Boer exploitation while yr make yourselves reach from the African products. Gugile Nkwinti, Minister of agriculture and land reform in South Africa wishes to implement a law that limits commercial farming land ownership by 2014.
The meeting was attended by KwaZulu-Natal premier Zweli Mkhize and provincial MEC for Agriculture, Environmental Affairs and Rural Development Lydia Johnson.
He told delegates that as a means of responding to challenges of land reform projects, his department has introduced a new recapitalisation and development programme.
“The objectives of the programme are to increase production, to guarantee food security, to graduate small scale farmers into commercial farmers and to create employment.” “We are all aware that land reform has not always produced the intended results. It is imperative that we find a pragmatic solution for land reform,” said Nkwinti speaking at a meeting at the Nkosi Albert Luthuli Convention Centre in Durban. The purpose of the meeting was also to discuss sustainability of projects handed over through the land reform programme. Nkwinti met with traditional leaders, municipal heads and labour tenants to discuss challenges faced once land was handed over.
The recapitalisation and development programme was designed for farmers and communities that have received land from the state and have not received the necessary support to sustain production.
Farming isn’t difficult. 90% of all you need to know about farming can be put on the back of a cereal box. Thousands of years across all nations farming has been occurring. There is no shortage of knowledge necessary. But there is a shortage of intelligence in Africa that can implement that knowledge.
When the blacks starve to death, Whites can go back to making the land productive again.