Africa: Land Issue - South Africa Comes of Age

editorial

Tuesday February 27, 2018, will be recorded in Africa's history as the day South Africa made the first tentative steps towards "a radical economic transformation" of the country to restore the dignity of the black majority. Whether the new President of the Republic Cyril Ramaphosa has the stomach to execute this historical mission will determine the final outcome. The one certainty for black South Africans is that they can count on our fullest support in carrying out this noble enterprise, in Ramaphosa's own words, to redress "a grave historical injustice" inaugurated on April 6, 1652 with the arrival of Jan van Riebeeck at the Cape.

Many reactionary forces in South Africa and their Zimbabwean counterparts sneered when former President Robert Mugabe on May 20, 2015 called for a "second liberation" in South Africa, noting that its first black president Nelson Mandela had done little to empower his people and that blacks remained largely marginalised.

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