THE South African government has reiterated it would act against anyone invading state or private land after renewed threats of Zimbabwe-style land seizures in the Mpumalanga province, said Land Affairs director general Gilingwe Mayende. Mayende was responding threats by the Mpumalanga Labour Tenants Committee to occupy three state-owned and private farms within the next week if government did not accelerate a solution for landless people in the area. The committee is a group of landless people who have either been evicted or resettled from farms across Mpumalanga. Mayende said his department had been engaged with various stakeholders over the past few weeks, including the committee, to fast-track projects, and that a “lot of progress has been made in a relatively short time”. – AFP