Willie Aucamp: CR’s praise for Zim land reform slammed as “unacceptable” by the DA

President Cyril Ramaphosa has been slammed for describing Zimbabwe’s land confiscation process as “essential” and “ambitious”. In his reaction, Willie Aucamp, the Democratic Alliance’s National Spokesperson, said Zimbabwe was “destroyed by the ideology and the implementation of their land grabs. And for our president to now go and praise the land reform efforts that Zimbabwe instituted in early 2000s is unacceptable…you're getting into a position where you are very afraid of what the real ideological ideas behind the Expropriation Act is…if you've got a president standing on an international stage like the one that he was on over the weekend, praising them for an absolute catastrophe of land reform implementation, it is going to deter investors away from our country and it's going to harm our economy - and it should not be allowed.” Aucamp stresses that the DA is “totally in favour” of redistribution of land, providing it takes places within the bounds of the Constitution. Meanwhile, Aucamp feels conficent that his party’s court case against the Expropriation Act will succeed.

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