Below is an article published by The Times (South Africa): 

“President Jacob Zuma is being misled as if the willing-buyer/willing-seller principle is the actual problem of land reform.

“The real problem is the incompetence of officials, who delay the administrative process for buyers and sellers,” FF Plus agriculture and land spokesman Pieter Groenewald said in a statement.

Zuma has said government is seeking a more “pragmatic” formula for land redistribution, and, to move forward decisively, ”significant changes will have to be made to the willing-buyer/willing-seller model”.

Groenewald said there was more than enough land being offered for sale at a reasonable price.

“But due to [the] administrative incompetence of the department of land affairs, the sales have not been finalised.”

To ensure the success of land reform, the government should first redistribute existing unused state land. Thereafter, there should be proper control over existing land reform projects.

Close to half the agricultural land reform projects had failed.

“The willing-buyer/willing-seller principle is being abused to hide incompetence,” Groenewald said.