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The Citizen writes that despite the national furore over the land debate, most South Africans of voting age prioritise jobs and security over land ownership issues as their most urgent concerns.
This was indicated in a survey of 1,800 adults conducted in August and September by data analytics firm Afribarometer. Communications director at Afribarometer, Sibusiso Nkomo, said that according to their research the top three in the list of priorities were employment, crime and security and then housing. Land as a priority was only thirteenth. Nkomo suggested that political parties, which have been at the centre of heated debates over land and property rights, were out of touch with the wants and needs of their voters. He opined that this might have to do with the immediate needs of many South Africans who were unemployed or worried about job security because of poverty and, for similar reasons, were more worried about having a place to live. This divide between the privileged and the poor presented itself in other parts of the survey. Those who had full-time employment were more likely to agree with the willing buyer, willing seller policy than the unemployed.
- Read the full original of the report by Simnikiwe Hlatshaneni at The Citizen
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