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RESTITUTION: Paulina Hadebe (74) travelled from Makwane, Free State, to the land claims offices in Phuthaditjhaba to lodge a claim for a portion of a farm on April 25 2015. (Lucky Nxumalo)
Ayanda Dlodlo
The opportunistic and misguided claims by the latecomers to our revolution and members of the opposition that the ANC has neither passion nor commitment to the struggle for land lacks historical validity.
The current debate on land redistribution cannot be adequately interrogated without reflecting on the land issue from the beginning and recalling the heroic struggle fought by our ancestors in defence of their land and their humanity against the rapacious colonial conquerors.
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