Mediation needed to 'get emotion out' of land debate - Hlophe
6 March 2018
Cape Town - South Africans need to work together as the emotive topic of amending the Constitution to expropriate land without compensation is thrashed out, Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe said on Tuesday.
"As South Africans, we need each other. We need to work together, and find a solution to poverty, landlessness, unemployment and so on, but there is no other better solution other than dialogue, and that's what mediation is all about," Hlophe told News24 on the sidelines of a conference on social justice and mediation.
"I don't think there is a formula. All I would suggest is that we need to come [together], try and get the emotion out of it," advised Hlophe.
"The issue of land obviously has a historical context," he said, on the grounds of a wine estate outside Paarl where the conference was being hosted.