Land reform

Arbenz threatened that arrangement.

In 1952, Guatemala introduced Decree 900, an ambitious agrarian reform program designed to redistribute large areas of uncultivated land.

The government intended to compensate landowners using bonds based on declared property values.

United Fruit stood to lose substantial acreage.

Okay, as much as you guys are enjoying, uh, this debate on the, the 19- 80s and 90s, let, let's skip forward, early 2000s.

Major event in our history, land reform.

Um, so while you were arguing that all these other critical moments have been thrown at us as random events of history, uh, uh, land reform was of our own making.

What was the opportunity there, and how did we miss it?

Was it? I, I, I don't think it was our own making.

Similarly with, uh, the British, I mean, y- they, they knew.

They played to, they, they danced to history.

No, I want you to talk about land reform.

Well, well, I think that, um, I think that the residents of Joburg have seen what the leaders of Rise Mzansi have done in Parliament, uh, through the work of Songolo Zibhi Skopa, ensuring accountability over, uh, the stewardship of, uh, public finances.

Um, what we are doing in the Gauteng government, uh, with Vuyiswa Ramokgopa at the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform, and Economic Development.

We're one of the provinces that have performed very well, uh, in containing and managing foot-and-mouth-disease, uh, outbreak, uh, but also with the economic development department.

Uh, we've been very intolerant of corruption, um, in, in, in some of those, uh, entities, particularly the gambling board, which is now on a reform and turnaround, uh, strategy.

After Calic fell, the council and King Thithian rewrote the entire arrangement.

They set aside farmable land specifically for ordinary citizens willing to work it, giving people a real shot and growing enough to survive and if the land cooperated enough surplus to sell for some profit and that land reform cut noble plantations down by 20 to free up ground for redistribution and every noble who kept the rest was ordered to pay their field workers directly could be in coin food clothing anything that kept the arrangement honest Some landowners, they answered with share cropping instead of wages.

Workers keep 20% of what they grew, and landowners, they took 80%.

And for that cut, the landowners cover waters, tools, transport to market, and to, and the work of selling the crop for a fair price once it arrives.

The bait was so tempting that the hook did not become apparent until too late.

Then the beneficiaries of the Agrarian Reform discovered they could neither sell nor rent the land, nor could they use it as security for loans.

If anyone ceased to work his holding, it reverted to the People's Committee, which allocated it to some other family.

The state retained possession, in short, and the peasant remained as much of a serf as ever.

It had undoubtedly become evident to the Kremlin in 1949 that the Republic of Korea could never be brought into the communist fold by propaganda, subversion, incitation of disorders, or any other means short of a victorious civil war.

Moreover, a successful war of invasion was equally desirable as a cure for political discontent at home.

Not only was the agrarian reform resented everywhere in North Korea, but taxes had gone up as high as 60 percent of the crops to maintain the top-heavy military structure and pay for tanks, planes, howitzers, and other arms supplied by the Soviet Union.

Although most of the heavy industries of Korea were located north of the 38th parallel, they included no arms plants, with the exception of a small factory capable of turning out submachine guns and ammunition.

The same can be or better can be achieved if you focus on socioeconomic situation rather than race.

The same is with regard to the whole issue of land reform.

It is a total lie to say if you're against expropriation without compensation, you are against land reform.

Because what we've seen, expropriation without compensation does not benefit the people that they say it would.

We have an example in Zimbabwe.

You don't think that the price of the land is a factor, the pricing of the land would be an issue if you're wanting to do restitution?

Well, there's a lot of money that has been made available over time.

But the one issue is, and I don't know how to answer that, in terms of the money that was paid out for land reform, 94% of the beneficiaries decided to take their cash.

It's Wednesday, September 16, and with your 8am news, I am Leonard Witbien.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Land Reform and the University of Namibia have signed an agreement to expand research, work integrated learning and knowledge sharing.

The Ministry's Romeo Muyunda says the deal will allow students and ministry staff to collaborate on research projects and related activities.

And the University of Namibia have signed a memorandum of understanding, which signals the partnership between the two institutions and the commitment to work together in terms of research, innovation, and also in utilizing the necessary equipment as well as facilities that are available to these two institutions.