FREEDOM Front Plus leader Pieter Mulder is trying to rewrite history and suggest that settlers and colonialists found South Africa as a "house to let", the Young Communist League of South Africa says
"The fact is that land was dispossessed violently and through bloodshed, and ultimately legislated in 1913, leaving Africans with no choice but to subject themselves to wage exploitation in the mining industry," secretary of the youth league Buti Manamela said in a statement on its lekgotla.
"Such utterances are nothing but archaic white denialism and (it) will defeat the process of land redistribution and land restitution," he said.
On Wednesday, Mulder suggested in Parliament that black "Bantu-speaking" people had no historical claim to 40% of the country.
"Africans in particular never in the past lived in the whole of South Africa," he said during debate on President Jacob Zuma's State of the Nation Address.
Zuma later warned Mulder to tread carefully on the emotive issue of land reform.
Yesterday, the youth league called for Mulder's resignation as deputy minister of agriculture, forestry and fisheries. "We do not believe that a person such as Pieter Mulder should serve in government, especially in his responsibility in agriculture and forestry," said Manamela.
Mulder flayed over land issue
FREEDOM Front Plus leader Pieter Mulder is trying to rewrite history and suggest that settlers and colonialists found South Africa as a "house to let", the Young Communist League of South Africa says
"The fact is that land was dispossessed violently and through bloodshed, and ultimately legislated in 1913, leaving Africans with no choice but to subject themselves to wage exploitation in the mining industry," secretary of the youth league Buti Manamela said in a statement on its lekgotla.
"Such utterances are nothing but archaic white denialism and (it) will defeat the process of land redistribution and land restitution," he said.
On Wednesday, Mulder suggested in Parliament that black "Bantu-speaking" people had no historical claim to 40% of the country.
"Africans in particular never in the past lived in the whole of South Africa," he said during debate on President Jacob Zuma's State of the Nation Address.
Zuma later warned Mulder to tread carefully on the emotive issue of land reform.
Yesterday, the youth league called for Mulder's resignation as deputy minister of agriculture, forestry and fisheries. "We do not believe that a person such as Pieter Mulder should serve in government, especially in his responsibility in agriculture and forestry," said Manamela.
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