Jacob Zuma blaming slow land reform for poverty

All Zuma keeps talking about is land reform and how that is the main salutation to black majorities poverty. It is not, look at our neighbor Zimbabwe. In it's hay day it was the main export and import country in the whole of Africa. It used to be a rich nation. Yes, most farm lands where owned by white farmers and it is true that most of the business in the city was brought in by white people. But does really makes such a big difference in the utter abject poverty the people are living in now. NO! Trust me, ask any of those people who used to work for the white man before he was chased away if they preferred it when they where still there 97% would say yes. Now they want to do that here.

They want to take well functioning farms and hand it over to people who do not have the skill to work it to it's full capacity. Herding cattle is not the same as running a lucrative cattle farm. Working in the fields will not equip them with the knowledge of import and export principals. I am not saying it cannot be done, it can. But we have to learn from Eskom's mistake. They fired all the white people for black empowerment, 14years down the line our country is crippled by constant threat of black outs and they're incompetence to help us. Now if they integrated them slowly trained the new employees and gave them time to pass on the knowledge needed to run, which was then advanced technology, we would not be in this mess.
Now Jacob Zuma says when he becomes president he would concentrate on speeding up land reform. My question is to what extent? They keep repeating that in 14years the government only have transferred 4% of the land. There is a reason for it, I grew up on a farm it is hard work and there is a lot more to it than meets the eye. So when they start training up people to take over farms do they have enough ambition to keep the farms lucrative. Not just running but planning ahead, trying to get more. That is one thing that most white people are ingrained with is, is ambition. But someone who has known nothing but poverty, how would he see it? What do you think? I think he would see it the same as winning the lotto most people who win it have no idea what to do except spend it. Where if you are used to money you would know you have to invest it and keep a close eye on it. Plus it would take work. You cannot just hand over all that responsibility to someone who is not used to it. It needs to be gradual bit by bit taking over the reigns. Not that I would want to do that in the first place. Except where farms where taken by force you cannot come claim something because your grate grandfather lived there once. What if he was paid? Surely it doesn't count then. And what about the white farmers who where born and raised to do what they do.It is all they know. It cannot simply just be taken away from them!

So Zuma better think again before he blames slow land reform for poverty if it is speeded up it might mean the end of prosperous South Africa. So let the focus rather fall on where the problems really lie. Firstly corruption in the government, rather than getting the person who is best for the job they employ the person they like the most. So service delivery gets clogged up and we have back logs in the building of schools hospitals roads which means less jobs. Plus they mismanage funds. So the funds don't reach the places it should. Two Telkom, Eskom, Transnet are crippling our communities. No cellphones don't count they just as expensive. Telkom charges as much a month for Internet what you can get for a year in a different country. Don't get me started on Eskom. And Transnet our public transport? What public transport! Three they spend money on stupid things like changing the airport name where with that money they could have built thousands of houses.

Lets just face it land reform is last on the list for reasons for poverty. Government no 1