FF Plus parliamentary questions expose ANC’s lies about land
Since 1994, the government has obtained a total of 8,2 million hectares of land by means of the land reform processes of restitution and redistribution. Thus far, these processes have cost the country R39,2 billion. On top of that, in 93% of all successful land claims, claimants opted for financial compensation and not the land.
This statistic, which came to light through parliamentary questions that were addressed to the Minister of Rural development and Land reform, reveals the truth about land in South Africa.
And yet the ANC and President Cyril Ramaphosa keep telling the world that it is necessary to expropriate land without compensation so as to rectify the "injustices" of the past and because "the masses are land hungry".
This statistic, however, makes it clear that "the masses" are not pining for land, but for money, and that so far the process was basically seen as an easily way to make money.
In addition, the government admits that it is in possession of nearly all the land that was bought with tax payers' money over the last 24 years.