The Homelands were not like the tribal territories of America, Canada and Australia, who had conveniently wiped out their indigenous populations first.

The Homelands were devised by the Brits and the Missionaries to stop the tribal Chiefs selling land to the boer farmers. This was especially relevant after the leaders of the Griquas sold the vast area of the diamond fields, which the Brits had bequeathed them, to the mining magnates (now the diamond fields of SA).

When Zululand was designated as a homeland 6000 acres per black family was allocated. What no-one anticipated was the population boom – same as happened in Haiti and Rwanda.

When South Africa got independence in 1910, as the Union of SA, the “homelands” of Lesotho, Botswana, and Swaziland were removed from the new country, as was Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).

So the calculations of “black” and “white” land are totally incorrect. Especially since all common, state, municipal and parastatal land, inherited by the ANC in 1994 is conveniently lumped into “white land”. Most of which the ANC has sold.

I have advised the opposition parties before – do a check of what state land has been sold, and the proceeds pocketed, since 1994.