... which in our view constitutes wasteful expenditure and promotes illegality. The department is also sponsoring a massive farm worker eviction campaign through its proposed so-called "fifty percent share equity scheme". Hon Nkwinti, the farm workers and their organisations have rejected this proposal that we are speaking about. They do not want the share equity scheme which, as you yourself and your department both know, has not worked; they want land and they want it now.
Minister Thoko Didiza, who was the Minister of Rural Development and Land Affairs, and the hon Hanekom, with whom I have worked, know that already more than a million farm workers have been evicted, but you are continuing with the same tradition to make sure that by next year April all the farm workers who are on farms have been evicted. I have also worked with them under their Ministry. They are completing the land dispossession programme that started in 1652.
As things stand, South Africa does not have a land reform policy. Twenty years later, only 8% of the land has been bought back with a lot of money. Again, we extend to you, the majority party, our votes to amend section 25 to make sure that section 25 goes and we get our land without paying compensation. That is the only solution, but it requires revolutionary courage, which is so sadly lacking on the side of the majority party. We reject this budget. [Applause.]