South Africa deputy prime minister David Mabuza said the ruling ANC Government would ensure there is no “land grab” from white farmers.
Plans to authorise the Government to take away farms from white farmers without compensation to redistribute the land were scrapped on Wednesday but Mr Mabuza warned the farmers at risk they must learn to “share”
Speaking to ITV News, the ANC politician said: “We are going to ensure that there’s no land grab but there should be a realisation from farmers, white farmers, that they’ve got to share the land.”
But while plans to take farms away were dumped, black activists remain firm in their demands for the land to be redistributed.
Peter Seolola from the Economic Freedom Fighters said: “We’ll take the land by force because we are in need of the land.
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“We are not going to be apologising for that. We are in need of the land as like now.”
Nearly 72 percent of land in South Africa is owned by white farmers, but only eight percent of the country’s 56 million population is white, according to the Land Audit Report.
A law proposed in 1913, called the Native Lands Act, made it illegal for South Africans to acquire land beyond their reserves, known as “Homelands”.
Public hearings on land reform are being held across South Africa to test the waters on whether to change the Constitution to include a clause allowing for land expropriation without compensation.
Nonceba Mhlauli, a spokeswoman for the ANC’s chief whip, said: “The bill in its current form would need to be reconsidered in light of the process of reviewing Section 25 of the constitution for the expropriation of land without compensation.
“Were the bill to be reintroduced, it would contain a clause or clauses reflecting expropriation of land without compensation if that is the way that South Africans have chosen to go.”
The postponement is sure to be met with approval by US President Donald Trump, who waded into the row over the country’s plan for land seizures on Twitter.
He wrote: “I have asked Secretary of State @SecPompeo to closely study the South Africa land and farm seizures and expropriations and the large-scale killing of farmers.”
However, the 2016 bill has mainly been scrapped after stalling.
The ruling ANC is now expected to put forward new proposals to make it easier to seize farmland.
The South African government had started to seize land from white farmers, initially targeting two-game farmers in the northern province of Limpopo after talks with the owners Akkerland Boerdery broke down over a huge difference in its estimated value.
There has been a rise in violent attacks against farmers in South Africa and between 2016-7, there were 74 farm murders and 638 attacks, mainly against the white farmers.