That is the task of the moment in the context of the radical phase of our transition, and that of the National Democratic Revolution. This equals the fundamental change from the old modes of neo- liberal colonial growth paths to a more radical job-guaranteed growth path with the state at the centre of the development. Therefore, the pronouncement of the President on the reopening of the land claims process is political menthol to our people who were robbed of their land.
Reindustrialisation embedded in the Industrial Policy Action Plan, Ipap, includes our inputs on agro-processing, the value-chain industry and productive economy. Those who are voluntary actors in the process of the revolution have a duty to fulfil this task.
South Africa is still bleeding from the historical fraud of the land dispossession of our black people, an act of indignity that thumb-screwed the rightful owners of the land into tormenting poverty, landlessness and reduced them to being nothing but objects. This is the grim reality; an undeniable historical accuracy.
We want to state cogently that this is the time to resign or to come on board. Productive economic activity for sustainable livelihoods requires that we give land to our people.
The green colour of the ANC flag represents the land question which sustained our people for many centuries. The ANC government can no longer be too careful or unreasonably careful about the fears of the market forces and their apologists. We can no longer afford political scruples, nor do we need the logic of the blind laws of the market, interpreted for us by liberal academics fired by infertile ideology.
Let us to respond to the stolid analysts of the possible, the frivolous timewasters, the bumptious vampires of the world, the most sordid and dangerous scoundrels in our politics in manner and appearance, the DA and the FF Plus. Their jingo-patriotism has long ago lost its political puff. Ours is to consciously expose the fantastic hypocrisy of the DA in our country. They voted against the land amendment Act in our Parliament ...