Khumalo got off lightly compared to Sparrow

Peter Onesta, Johannesburg

May I add that I have some misgivings about Albie Sachs’s views on land expropriation without compensation reported in the same edition of the paper. So, the “solution” is to be carried out in a “transparent and public way”. Most farmers and land owners didn’t steal the land, they had to borrow money from banks, and with toil and sweat, work hard to pay off their bonds.

So, one might regard land expropriation without compensation as transparent theft. Yet, this government thinks people will invest here when there is no security of property, a precept enshrined in the Constitution. No soft soaping will convince people that this is not a violation of a basic right.