zimbabwe 2.0 has arrived
>"Africa is for black people. Period. We need our land back and we're going to take it by force," said a woman amongst an angry crowd trying to occupy a field on the north-eastern edge of Johannesburg in South Africa.
>"This is my boundary," said 50-year-old Christina Mashaba, striding through the long grass and pointing to a stick she had pushed into the ground, some 15 yards (13m) away.
>A few hundred metres further up the hill, at the entrance to the field, beside a brand-new housing estate, a large and increasingly angry crowd from the nearby township of Alexandra was confronted by a group of South African policemen, who were trying to seal the area, insisting that the land is private, and that "land-grabbers" would be dealt with harshly.
>"Democracy?" scoffed a community leader called Mafasi Kubai, after listening to the pleas of a police captain.
>"How can we participate when some are super rich and others are poor. Whites should be empathetic… but they are exploiting us."
>A generation after the advent of democracy, black people still own just 8% of farmland nationwide.
>"It should no longer be about willing buyer, willing seller only. It should be about the willingness to share the land. And it should happen now."
>The ANC - responding to pressure from groups like the EFF - is also actively considering the introduction of legislation to allow for the expropriation of land without compensation, a measure assumed by some to be targeting white-owned farm land.
>Prof Hall argues that land expropriation - with or without compensation - is already an option under the existing constitution.
>"It's our bloody land," roared Bongani Motswale, hoarse with screaming, as he paced up and down the dirt track in front of his plot.