02 March 2015
Democratic Alliance MP of Rural
Development and Land Reform Thomas Walters has allegedly accused the National
Secretary General of the African National Congress Gwede Mantashe for being
populism.
Mantashe was quoted as warning
farmers in South Africa to work with the ANC on populist policies such as
forced expropriation and capping land ownership.
Walters says Mantashe’s statement is
an attempt to shift the blame elsewhere for government’s failures.
Walters said: “Gwede Mantashe’s
remarks should be seen in the context of an ANC that has personally failed with
abundant resources in Land Reform, rather than trying to shift the blame
elsewhere and use a bogey man to scare farmers.”
Walters said: “He should focus on
making Land Reform work and not perpetuate the failures that we’ve seem up
until now, it’s an irresponsible remark and simple not consistent with what
we’ve seen in the National Development plan and what the country needs, so it
should ber ignored and treated with content.”
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