Bernadette Atuahene Quotes
Aggressive land reform would be far less destabilizing than a violent revolt.
Bernadette Atuahene, Legal Scholar & Public Affairs Fellow, Advice to the African National Congress (ANC) party in South Africa, South Africa’s Land Reform Crisis, Foreign Affairs, July / August 2013
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Excesses that CEOs and other corporate executives were getting for remuneration became an issue of political controversy in the beginning of the 2nd Milleneum. However, this quotation shows that this was not a new problem and has been considered for a long time.
His bill introduced in the House of Representatives. It did not pass.
Use included renting it. What he opposed was simply holding land when whites were driving Indians off their lands because all the unused land outside of the reservation was owned by someone and the asking price was very high. Ingersoll was considered to be the greatest orator and political thinker of his day, but his overt atheistic views curtailed his elected political career.
In every society where there had been past unjust ownership of land, all efforts of land reform were faced with the problem of having to dispossess the current “owners” who themselves had not been guilty of the crimes of their ancestors in unjustly obtaining the land originally. In America land reform was unworkable in most cases and the solution was usually a large monetary payment as compensation for the land.
In Burundi, family land is divided among the male children of a family. The average Burundian woman has 6.3 children at that time, nearly triple the international fertility rate. With this population growth rate, the plots of land for each person inevitably get smaller and smaller over time. At 10,745 square miles, Burundi is slightly smaller than the U.S. state of Maryland, but it holds nearly twice as many people: about 10 million. The small plots of land are inefficient to farm and provide subsistence. So the nation was in a crises as there was little industrialization and land was essential for existence for most Burundians. See {35807} and {35808}.
While the economics of land is described accurately, immigrants from most of the world would never in their home country ever be able to earn enough in a few years to acquire that much land. So the prospect of land ownership was a fundamental selling point and was a major spur to immigration to America where land was and is plentiful.
The Tay Son Rebellion had overthrown the Nguyen Lords in the South by 1783 and then the Trinh Lords in the North in 1789. The revolutionary unification of Vietnam was short lived when Hue, the conqueror of the North, died in 1792. See {42229} for a reason for the very high taxes.
At this point in the convoluted history of Irish-English politics, the majority of the Irish upper class and members of Parliament were large landholders whose estates had been accumulated and legalized under English
This was the basic document issued after the Russian Revolution establishing the basic legal and economic structure of the new Soviet State.
