Hon Deputy Chair, it is a fact that no country in the world is more unequal than South Africa. It is also true that there is no country in the world where there are such inequalities in how land is distributed. This is not a coincidence. For 350 years the white minority committed genocide and disposed our people of their land.
That is why the struggle for national liberation is centred on the return of our land. Yet, to date 25 years after our first democratic elections and 23 years after the adoption of our Constitution, the black majority still own 4% of all privately owned land, while the white minority owns over 70%.
The ANC has for 25 years in this government failed to redistribute even 10% of land back to its people. Of the land that has been redistributed, they have failed to provide any meaningful postsettlement support to land recipients condemning them to future. Instead, this government has used proactive land acquisition strategy to allocate land to their own comrades.
The ANC government has through its own internal incompetence failed to use recapitalisation programme to recapitalise land reform farms, but rather have used to entrench their patronage networks. That is
why it falls upon the EFF to carry on the struggle of Ntate Robert Sobukwe, Mama Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Ntate Steve Biko, Ntate Chris Hani and Ntate Harry Gwala and the first step is amending section 25 of the Constitution, so that land can be expropriated without compensation.
All other alternatives have failed for a quarter of a century. That is why the Constitution needs to be amended.
Secondly, land must be placed under the custodianship of the state. This must be done in a manner that gives maximum security of tenure to citizens and to businesses. This along with other policies and programmes will lay the basis for successful land reform. Not this thing of what the ANC is doing of buying back what is rightfully ours. You are just misusing money for nothing; you could take that money to free education.
Hon Anele neh ...
Setswana:
Maloko a EFF otlhe a lekanwa ke ditlhako tsa ona. Go simolola ka baeteledipele go ya kwa malokong a a kwa tlase, ga go ope yo o
kileng a amangwa le bosenyi. Maloko otlhe a robala boroko, ga ba tshwenngwe ke sepe.
English:
The EFF rejects this Budget Vote. [Applause.]