170,000+ square kilometres of the entire country is owned by the state . Yes the ANC has sat on this land for 31 years.
To put into perspective, Soweto houses 2 million people. The township measures 200 square kilometres. The ANC, EFF, MK, SACP and ASA argue that all the land belongs to the minority. (White people) and that because of this, the government is unable to provide land for dwellings or industry for its citizens.
With 170,000 square kilometres at their disposal, all they would have needed was to build the suburban infrastructure and let the land developers do the rest. God forbid. Jobs, growth and prosperous opportunities.
The ANC government is constantly begging the private sector for engagement and support. (ANC speak for “Please pay for this!”)
The year that was, as we look ahead to 2019- South Africa- Landreform.
Of the existing cities and suburbs, developers and government worked together. Land was made available and infrastructure put in place. Then home buyers were found and homes sprang up from a predesign plan and land parcel system.
Under the ANC’s Marxist theory ideological disaster, building infrastructure and handing homes over for free is where the imbecilic plan hits the dirt.
Funding the entire process is argued as a race monopoly, selfish, unwilling to share race issue. It’s not that the ANC doesn’t have the land (170,000 square kilometres), they’d rather the private sector fund the infrastructure (infrastructure being the ANC’s kryptonite) No matter where we look, informal settlements are forced alongside existing suburbs (act of government, to balance votes) and then the political rhetoric is we are an unequal society. Unequal because the ANC is incapable of commercially or economically serving their people. Unequal because there are +/- 57 million black people and only 4 million whites. That would require 14 black people to move into the existing white homes. (TOP of the page)
South Africa’s “land question” is one of the most emotionally charged and politically weaponized issues in the post-apartheid era. Stemming from centuries of colonial dispossession and apartheid-era laws like the 1913 Natives Land Act, which reserved 87% of land for whites while confining Black South Africans to just 13%, the debate centers on redressing profound inequalities: today, white South Africans (about 7% of the population) still own roughly 70-72% of farmland, while Black South Africans (80% of the population) hold less than 4%. This disparity fuels poverty, unemployment (33.5% nationally in 2025), and food insecurity in rural areas. But the narrative often gets distorted—by domestic populists promising quick fixes, international figures amplifying fears of “white genocide,” and critics decrying any reform as Zimbabwe-style chaos. The truth? Progress has been slow and flawed, but the new Expropriation Act (signed January 23, 2025) is neither a radical land grab nor a panacea; it’s a constitutional tool for targeted redress, hampered by implementation failures and political posturing.
To date (November 2025), no expropriations have occurred under the Act—implementation is pending regulations, expected in early 2026. Government spokespeople like Chrispin Phiri emphasize it’s “not a land seizure law,” aimed at equitable redistribution without Zimbabwe’s violent pitfalls.
