Cyril's waxing over Zim hides truth SA knows

Cyril Ramaphosa has the tendency of trying to be all things to all people but, unlike Nelson Mandela — who genuinely listened to many views and brought people together — we feel the president just does it to suck up to people, or to use them to prove a political point for himself.

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That's probably why he gushed so much in Harare over the weekend about the wonderful land seizures undertaken in that country.

Trying to draw parallels between the two countries, Ramaphosa said South Africa and Zimbabwe have a similar history of land dispossession. He said it was necessary for the government of Zimbabwe to take measures that would remedy the situation that black Zimbabweans who were landless found themselves in.

What he didn't note was that there were two land redistribution programmes in Zimbabwe, the first of which began in 1980 and stuttered to a halt through government neglect and incompetence, much as has happened here in many land restitutions.