"In South Africa it's not going to work. Even as we say the 50/50 [proposal] farmers say 'we don't agree'. They say 'no, it's wrong'. They send me smses. They put it as bluntly as that," he told reporters in Pretoria.
"They say it's unconstitutional, and they are right. That is the beauty of our country. Our country is a constitutional democracy."
Nkwinti was at an Agri SA summit, where an alternative proposal to the government-mooted redistribution model was presented.
The 50/50 proposal involves giving 50% of farms to farmworkers and was widely criticised as ill-considered and unacceptable.
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