The land restitution bill is not the game-changer that
President Zuma promised, write Nomboniso Gasa and Nolundi Luwaya. Sunday Independent
The Land Restitution Bill approved by the National Council
of Provinces (NCOP) on Thursday may raise a cheer from traditional leaders, but
it is not the game-changer that President Jacob Zuma promised in his State of
the Nation address last year.
Zuma and his Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform,
Gugile Nkwinti, punted the bill as a second chance for the Khoi, San and
Africans who were dispossessed before the notorious 1913 Natives Land Act
redesigned the South African landscape.
