Land: Didiza asks people to remain calm; ANC the cause of chaos
7 August 2019
While the Minister of Agriculture, Land reform and Rural development, Thoko Didiza, is asking the people to remain calm when it comes to the issue of land, it is the ANC itself that is stirring up emotions with its lack of policy certainty regarding the matter.
During a business breakfast that was held on Wednesday at the University of the Free State (UFS), Didiza asked South Africans to remain calm and sober so as to make proper decisions about land.
The ANC's obsession with the past and using it as an excuse for its own failures is the main reason why the land debate cannot be conducted in a calm and sensible manner.
Didiza's department will spent more than a quarter of its budget on land reform programmes this financial year. But South Africa still does not know exactly how much land is in the government's possession.