AGRICULTURAL NEWS - Commercial farming will not be disrupted, land grabs will not be tolerated and food security will not be jeopardised by the ANC’s campaign to accelerate land reform.
This was the message that Deputy President David Mabuza repeatedly emphasised during his address at a land summit held in Bela-Bela, Limpopo on Thursday.
At its national elective conference, held in December 2017, the ANC resolved to expropriate land without compensation to accelerate land reform.
READ Agri sector welcomes ANC reassurance on property rights
This resolution was followed up in February 2018 when the ANC supported an EFF motion to expropriate land without compensation in the National Assembly.
However, Mabuza appealed to farmers to continue farming and investing in their farms, as well as to increase production, “without fear of any disruption from land reform”. At the same time, he said, white commercial farmers needed to extend the hand of collaboration that would make it possible for new farmers to enter the sector.
