Seretse is out of touch with reality

Recent comments by Trade and Industry Minister Vincent Seretse on the land question are, for lack of a better word, disappointing.

Seretse is the least expected to disregard the plight of the landless. This is a man who for many years ran an estate company that helped sell land to people, among them foreigners. In the process, his company helped inflate land prices. As an estate agent and businessman, Seretse is better placed to know the desperation of the landless. He would know the frustration of the poor citizen who cannot get the smallest piece of land to build a house.  Seretse’s inconsiderate attitude towards the landless cannot go unchallenged. What does minister Seretse mean when he says it is not possible for everyone to get land and that some people will always have to rent? Is he implying those who need land should resign themselves to the possibility they will never get land? And who really should have land?

Minister Seretse’s comments border on elitism and appear to encourage a class system where the gap between the rich and the poor is wider than it is now. The minister must appreciate that the majority of people who flock to Land Boards looking for land are largely young people. Many of them are unemployed and do not have the means of buying the kind of plot that the minister’s former company would advertise. Simply put, they are poor people.

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