The burning land question is actually not a land question. It is more about symbolism, history and inequality than about land to live and farm on.
This makes it a more difficult and complex issue, because even rapid and successful but orderly land transformation won’t satisfy many militants and the fires will still be stoked.
The EFF foregrounded the land issue again with strong statements that “the land” should be taken from present white owners without any compensation and given to black people, or else there will be large scale violent attacks on white South Africans.