(Ecofin Agency) - On the sidelines of the Youth Day held on June 18 in Hammarsdale, South Africa’s president, Jacob Zuma, brought up the land issue saying that it should be resolved within the country’s constitution and laws.

However, he added that if these laws cannot help resolve the issue, they may be amended for that purpose.

“The land question is very much related to the economy. The day there was dispossession of land‚ that’s the day poverty began‚ that’s the day inequality began‚ that’s the day unemployment began. The land question is a critical question. If the law is not enough‚ let us take it to the point. If the constitution is not enough‚ let us take the constitution to the point,” the leader said.

It should be recalled that the president, earlier this month, spoke about the same issue mentioning the possibility of expropriating white land owners, without compensating them, in the framework of a land reform which aims to profit the black community. Just like during his recent speech in Hammarsdale, he had insured that the reform would be implemented within the law.