South Africa to change constitution to confiscate land without compensation
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The ANC has decided to change the Constitution to expropriate land without compensation.
This was decided at a two-day lekgotla held in Irene, outside Pretoria, which concluded on Tuesday.
The move is seen as one which reflects the majority perspective expressed at the ongoing hearings on land taking place across the country headed by Parliament’s Constitutional Review Committee.
Business Day understands that a decision was taken by the ANC national executive committee lekgotla to “amend the Constitution to explicitly allow for expropriation without compensation”.
The party is set to make a submission to the parliamentary process under way to this effect.
The decision has far-reaching consequences for both the South African economy as well as its political space. It comes following yet another quarter in which the South African economy has shed jobs, with Statistics SA announcing an increase in the unemployment rate on Tuesday. The move is set to further dent investor sentiment and confidence by local business in the economy.
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The white genocide in South Africa has started and will start ramping up soon. Many will dismiss this because it is being done to someone white.
Please follow social media links of kiss the boer, kiss the farmer.... those are the code words being used to mean kill the whites.
When South Africa is removed of white landowners it won't be long until they start starving like other countries this has happened in. Please remember that they chose this path when they ask for help and blame white people for their starvation deaths
They? You mean black South Africans? That sounds like a rather profoundly racist comment.
FYI the ANC is open to all South Africans who are 18 or older. And not only did SA already pass a law on this issue several years ago but land reform is an issue which many countries have faced particularly in countries where inequality was enforced by law, as was the case in most of Latin America.
If you want to call facts racist so be it. Let's see how it works out for them like it did in other parts of Africa. At least the land owners can get some satisfaction knowing more will be starving to death within a year
Racism is alive and well in South Africa.