Malema to black South Africans: take back land from whites
White-owned land in South Africa belongs to the indigenous population and must be returned at once, so says firebrand opposition figure Julius Malema.
The leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters Party is in court challenging an apartheid era law being used to prosecute him for making these claims. Land reform in South Africa is a highly emotive and sensitive topic. Two decades on from the end of white-minority rule, most of the country's best farmland is owned by a few thousand white farmers. Malema is leading the charge to end this near monopoly but is he on the right path?
Did the Zimbabwean example just across the border teach South Africans anything? So far Malema remains unmoved that a call to his followers to occupy white owned land could result in chaos. He told his supporters outside court: 'The land must be expropriated without compensation.' If this call is heeded by South Africans, fed up with the lack of progress and the direction their country has taken, could it spell a violent future for the Rainbow Nation?
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