Land reform needs an act as forceful as war: ANCYL

[Zyzzyva]

Durban - It is an illusion if South Africans believe they can get their land back peacefully, ANC Youth League deputy president Ronald Lamola said in Durban on Tuesday.

Lamola again called for the expropriation of land without compensation. He said youth unemployment could not be dealt with unless land was expropriated.

"We need an act as forceful as war to bring it back to the Africans."

He said it was an illusion if South Africans believed they could get their land back peacefully.

South Africa needs a minister of nationalisation, Lamola said.

Such a minister would have a mandate in line with the Freedom Charter, he said in a lecture on economic freedom at the Durban University of Technology.

While policemen had been forced to apologise to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, "corporate South Africa has never been put before the TRC".

About 100 people protested outside the hall where Lamola was speaking. Lamola's lecture at the Durban University of Technology started an hour late after journalists initially outnumbered supporters.

As Lamola was being introduced, loud singing could be heard outside the hall. The opposing faction wore T-shirts and displayed posters that read "ANCYL 100% Support for Zuma".

University security prevented them from entering Mansfield Hall.

Lamola said the ANC leadership had ignored the ANCYL's autonomy when expelling its former president Julius Malema from the party.

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Po...ANCYL-20120619

[MickeyD]

Round up these idiots and stick them on Robben Island for 10-20 years.

[BTTB]

Another chop looking for media attention and space on the gravy train.

[OrbitalDawn]

He said it was an illusion if South Africans believed they could get their land back peacefully.

Get it back from who? Do the British still have it? We're all South Africans, or so I thought...

Goodness, aren't we lucky to have these luminaries pushing the intellectual frontiers of society.

[MickeyD]

/sees another hate speech complaint on the horizon

[rainynight65]

What's the link between youth unemployment and the land reform? Because farmers are producing food, young people don't have jobs?

Never once in history has forceful expropriation had any positive effects.

[thestaggy]

What's the link between youth unemployment and the land reform? Because farmers are producing food, young people don't have jobs?

Never once in history has forceful expropriation had any positive effects.

That is what happens when imbeciles comment on things they know absolutely nothing about.

I've said it before; South Africa and Zimbabwe must be the only countries in the world that treat their farmers like the enemy. When I read this rubbish I wish I could leave this country. If I could get out, I would then pray that they force this nonsense through so I can watch it collapse into ruin. Some folks need to hit their heads before they realise how good they had it. This retarded organisation has no clue as to how good they have it in South Africa. It is not perfect, but life in this country is a damn sight better than pretty much everywhere else on the continent but their extremist, ill-informed ideals will only make it worse, not better.

They will own the land, but they will starve.

[MickeyD]

What's the link between youth unemployment and the land reform? Because farmers are producing food, young people don't have jobs?

Never once in history has forceful expropriation had any positive effects.

They (those few that rant like this) don't only want the "farm" land. They want your house and residential properties as well.

[BTTB]

That is what happens when imbeciles comment on things they know absolutely nothing about.

I've said it before; South Africa and Zimbabwe must be the only countries in the world that treat their farmers like the enemy. When I read this rubbish I wish I could leave this country. If I could get out, I would then pray that they force this nonsense through so I can watch it collapse into ruin. Some folks need to hit their heads before you realise how good you had it. This retarded orgainsation has no clue as to how good they have it in South Africa. It is not perfect, but life in this country is a damn sight better than pretty much everywhere else on the continent but their extremist, ill-informed ideals will only make it worse, not better.

They will own the land, but they will starve.

It never pans out that way thestaggy.
Zimbabwe and Migabe's cronies used the land invasion propaganda to keep themselves in power as they were on the brink of losing the elections as up until the year 2000 ZANUPF had pillaged the county to the brink of bankruptcy. In the year 2000 there were around 1 million people working on the farms, mostly MDC supporters and Mugabe used the land invasions to rid himself of the opposing voters, further driving the propaganda machine of white colonialism to the simple minded masses by promising them farms, but in the end they got nothing, only ZANUPF cronies got land, the rest of the stolen land lies fallow with little hope of restoring it to its productive former self.

What I am trying to say is, each time someone drives home the land question in Africa by taking it without compensation, there is another agenda at work, to drive popular sentiment from the simple people and to create the smokescreen so they can steal it for themselves.
There is no truth in what he says and in all seriousness he should be exposed for the lies he tells and be charged for inciting violence.
Of course this will take years, he will first have to stir the pot for a few years like Malema did, cause untold damage to the country before finally being thrown out, a rich man.

[ToxicBunny]

This is very def not about farm land anymore if you ask me.

This is about White people owning land.. be it farm land, building, homes etc.... they want it because we have it. They do not even begin to grasp that I work my ASS off to pay my bond, its not something that was just given to me.

[Nicodeamus]

how is the land redistribution project not the same as the homelands project?

[Nicodeamus]

Round up these idiots and stick them on Robben Island for 10-20 years.

do you really want them to become president?

[gregmcc]

Round up these idiots and shoot them!

Fixed.

We're all South Africans, or so I thought...

We are - but only if you support the cANCer

[eltherza]

He said it was an illusion if South Africans believed they could get their land back peacefully.

I disagree, as a south african I managed to get some land (not land back, because I never owned land that was taken away from me) after a very lengthy, PEACEFUL and expensive negotiation with a bank.

[rainynight65]

I disagree, as a south african I managed to get some land (not land back, because I never owned land that was taken away from me) after a very lengthy, PEACEFUL and expensive negotiation with a bank.

I think the negotiation part is the one they'd prefer to skip over.