Panic ensued last week when ANC chairman Gwede Mantashe announced that, let me quote:
“You shouldn’t own more than 25,000 acres of land. Therefore, if you own more it should be taken without compensation. People who are privileged never give away privilege as a matter of a gift. And that is why we say, to give you the tools, revisit the constitution so that you have a legal tool to do it.â€
Interestingly enough, both black and white farmer unions condemned Gwede’s communist ideas, and predicted that following mass-scale land confiscations, South Africa’s economy will collapse and the country may no longer be capable of feeding its citizenry. The exact same thing happened to Zimbabwe by the way, i.e. there’s enough empiric evidence to support the claim.