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Hey, that was a pretty funny joke right? Just about as funny as the racial justice jokers in the South African government. In a previous post entitled “South Africa Speeding Up Land Reform,” I talked about how President Mbeki is ideologically sympathetic with Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe, and how the country is planning to speed up the process of land-reform through government redistribution.

The land reform conference didn’t explicitly state that they were taking Mugabe’s lead, but based on what I know, I assumed it. Well, my assumption was correction. South Africa’s deputy president is saying that, with regards to land reform, South Africa has a thing or two it could learn from Zimbabwe.

South Africa could learn about speedy land reform from its neighbour Zimbabwe, Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said on Wednesday.

“We’ve got lessons to learn from Zimbabwe — how to do it fast,” she told an African distance-education conference in Pretoria.

There is a general complaint in South Africa that land reform is too slow, too structured and “that we need a bit of an oomph”.

“So, we might want some skills exchange between us and Zimbabwe, to get some of their colleagues to help us here with that,” the deputy president told delegates with a smile — to muted laughter.

I just want to smack this woman with a smelly carp. Read my previous post for more on why land reform like this is so, so wrong. I don’t have the energy to slap around these commies for a second time.