Public Works Minister Thulas Nxesi said that South Africa could learn from neighbour Zimbabwes agrarian model saying that recent research indicated that its land reforms had been successful. Nxesi though was quick to stress that he was not calling for illegal land grabs. The minister was speaking at a SA Democratic Teachers Union provincial general council in KwaZulu-Natal in his capacity as SACP deputy chairperson. According to The Mercury, Nxesi wanted to see the end to capitalist class inequality on land ownership and move towards more public use of the land. He then used Zimbabwe as a model for land reform, saying that the countrys model been successful in replacing the 6000 white-owned farms with more than 200 000 small black-owned farms. We might be able to learn something from the agrarian model adopted by our neighbours - essentially breaking down large-scale farms and promoting more intensive small-scale farming. This is not a call for an illegal land grab. In South Africa we have a constitution that recognises and facilitates the process of land restitution, he said in the report
Posted on: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 14:52:16 +0000
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