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Duarte allays fears over land issue

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ANC deputy secretary-general, Jessie Duarte has backed the re-assurances given by President Cyril Ramaphosa about land, after the National Assembly voted in favour of expropriation without compensation this week.

Duarte’s re-iterated that the ANC will work with all stakeholders on the land distribution programme.

“On the issue of the policy perspective on land the panic is in fact being stimulated by some people including our good friends who are going overseas to talk about SA being another Zimbabwe. That is absolute nonsense and the question of land distribution cannot be an ANC decision only. It’s got to be a national decision and every South African who understand that the future does lay in growing and undermining poverty will work with us on this question.”

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