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Let’s hold referendum to settle land issue

The issue of land expropriation without compensation was always going to be contentious. But the events of the past week have shown how politicians are mishandling it supposedly in the name of their people, and it’s about time that ordinary South Africans — not their leaders (elected or unelected) — were given the right to make a decision through a referendum.

Two issues have sparked the latest controversy. First, it is the misunderstood report of the high-level panel headed by former president Kgalema Motlanthe; and second it is the parliamen...