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<strong>south</strong> <strong>africa</strong><br />
Zuma: land claims could be<br />
better late than never<br />
land claims<br />
Almost 13 years after the December 1998 cut-off date, those who still feel they have a claim to ancestral<br />
land, and who didn’t lodge their claims back then, could get to have another go, President Jacob Zuma<br />
said. Still, he reassures, we won’t be another Zimbabwe. CARIEN DU PLESSIS reports.<br />
Most South Africans with assets in the country<br />
have at one point in their lives harboured some<br />
kind of fear that South Africa will become<br />
another Zimbabwe.<br />
Everything had started off fine in our<br />
northern neighbour until its president refused<br />
to leave and the land reform policies failed<br />
spectacularly, resulting in land grabs and an<br />
exodus of white farmers, and whites in general.<br />
So, as Julius Malema is running around<br />
telling all and sundry that his league wants to<br />
change the Constitution to take the (stolen)<br />
land off white people (who he termed criminals)<br />
without compensation and give it back to<br />
black people, some asset-rich people have been<br />
worrying that Junior is trying to sculpt us in the<br />
image of this neighbour he admires so much.<br />
But on Monday, President Zuma assured<br />
a bunch of businesspeople at The New Age’s<br />
breakfast event in Sandton that “we cannot<br />
have a Zimbabwe situation in South Africa at<br />
Photo: REUTERS<br />
tuesday - 4 october 2011
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