ANC races emotions itself

President Jacob Zuma's warning to dr. Pieter Mulder's not to light emotions about land, is highly inappropriate.

The ANC itself exciting emotions on land and property rights by its Green Paper on Land Reform, rumors of nationalization, threats of expropriation and Pres. Zuma's statement in his State of the Nation speech that the willing buyer, willing seller principle does not work.

Furthermore, emotions are excited by a president who sings "Bring me my machine gun" and his party who want to have the song "Shoot the farmers" sung in public.

"Mr. Zuma tries to make the protectors of private ownership to be the black sheep. We noted that in his State of the Nation Speech he mentioned that he wants in effect all land to be transferred to previously disadvantaged people in terms of the Constitution.

The ANC cannot simply want to rewrite history and pretend that all land has previously been stolen. This can be historically proven to be a lie but government is doing its best to repeat this lie until it is ultimately believed by all people.

Land will remain an emotional issue as long as an unwilling government is not prepared to look at it from an economic perspective," said Mr. Bennie van Zyl, TAU SA's General Manager.

Statement issued by Bennie van Zyl, TAU SA general manager, February 16 2012

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