two things that Rama says:
1. EWC would create jobs, now taking into account that some of the EWC farms or probably all of them have minerals but time would tell. If this is true ANC can create thousands upon thousands of jobs through mining. countless surveys from respectable institutions (i.e IRR) have shown people want work not land. its just a handful that are singing the land issue kak and they will be controlled by the masses when Rama delivers on his promises, and if he does he EWC would be the biggest success story the ANC can tell as it would actually up the economy....who loses out of this?....the farmers that won't be compensated. other land that will be EWC will be urban vacant land...that will be expropriated in silence because it won't bother people as it won't affect us, only the owner of said land.
2. He is very very clear that illegal land grabs will be dealt with, so should the ANC give green light to EWC and people start grabbing land, i believe the ANC would intervene. why do i believe this? because the ANC won't destroy their only golden egg they have and illegal land grabs will lead to civil war and the ANC can't afford that.
so in my opinion, this whole EWC thing is a truth and a lie, i dont think they will expropriate all the land only some in order to boost the mining industry, the rest they will down scale commercial farmers limiting their access to only a certain amount of 'ownable' land and then giving/selling the rest to the state and then give that to our growing black farmers.
