COPE Leader Lekota Discusses Land Issue: Over two decades after the end of the apartheid regime, most of South Africa’s lands remain in white hands. Its leader Julius Malema upholds that black people were forced to give out their land to white people. Asked why title deeds are a pre-condition for land ownership, COPE leader Lekota said that they make it easier to identify the true owners of the certain land. “If you took any land in this country, take any land from the white people, which black families will you give that land to? So even when the land was taken under the 1913 Land Act, nobody could just say ‘I’m white I must get a piece of land’, they had to buy it,” Cope leader Lekota said.

Source: The North Africa Journal April 11, 2017 10:07 UTC