South Africa Votes To Seize White-Owned Land Without Compensation

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South Africa’s parliament voted Tuesday to move forward with an amendment to the country’s constitution that would allow the government to seize and redistribute white-owned land without compensation.

The motion was brought by the radical Marxist Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party and was widely supported by the ruling African National Congress, which controls almost two-thirds of the parliament. The measure passed by a vote of 241 to 83, reports Reuters.

EFF leader Julius Malema, a longtime proponent of land expropriation, said the “time for reconciliation is over. Now is the time for justice.”

“We must ensure that we restore the dignity of our people without compensating the criminals who stole our land,” Malema told parliament ahead of the vote, according to South Africa’s News24.

The ANC has long promised land reforms aimed at evening the distribution of land among racial groups, still a highly contentious subject more than two decades after the end of apartheid. Whites own roughly three-quarters of South Africa’s farmland, according to a 2017 government audit.

It was not immediately clear when any change to South Africa’s constitution to allow expropriation of land without compensation would take place. The matter will now be referred to the Constitutional Review Committee, which must report back to parliament with a plan by August 30.

Newly elected South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has backed land confiscation, saying after his inauguration earlier this month that he would work to hasten the transfer of land to black people. He also stressed that food production and security should be considered in any expropriation effort.

Not all of South Africa’s parties supported the motion to amend the constitution. The opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) opposed the measure, arguing that it would undermine property rights and deter foreign investment.

DA lawmaker Thandeka Mbabama said expropriation without compensation “cannot be part of the solution,” adding that it was a “lie peddled by the ANC, who fears being outflanked on the left by the EFF.”

This plan if implemented spells disaster for South Africa. Watch the Rand drop like a stone.

The amount of discrimination against minorities is scary! The anc and eff are racist organisations.

Yes, this is totally impossible to implement...it would destroy our economy entirely...R180 billion is mortgaged on land any way.

Farming is very capital intensive any way...machinery, irrigation and farming utilities costs huge bucks...banks will never lend if you don't own land.

What a f up...rand will become worthless...financial shares will collapse...stocks and shares will plummet.

Ramaphosa...needs to change this or else we will never be free...he has made a huge error cowtailing to the demands of EFF influence...that borders still on the extreme side of ANC

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Yes, this is totally impossible to implement...it would destroy our economy entirely...R180 billion is mortgaged on land any way.

Farming is very capital intensive any way...machinery, irrigation and farming utilities costs huge bucks...banks will never lend if you don't own land.

What a f up...rand will become worthless...financial shares will collapse...stocks and shares will plummet.

Ramaphosa...needs to change this or else we will never be free...he has made a huge error cowtailing to the demands of EFF influence...that borders still on the extreme side of ANC. Malema continues to tell huge lies...a died in the wool... out and out communist... a replica of Lenin and Fidel Castro...in fact they are his heros...he wants this country to be like Cuba. We heard so many times how the revolutionists said land owners are criminals and capitalism is evil...yet these liars and looters feather their own nests.

Good article...Uncertainty over #LandExpropriation process 'a great concern' | IOL News

This was voted ANC policy at their conference last year. Ramaphosa has no choice but to implement it. This will be a prosess to get the constitution ammended and the details are still not known, but this is a very serious matter. If they start changing the constitution, even slightly, we are on the road to desaster greater than Zim.

With the ANC in power we are never going to see the light of day...the essence of the ANC is deeply rooted by a socialist/communist mentality where 75% of the voters don't know what they are voting for.

Many years ago when Helen Suzman/Colin Eglin,Fred Van Zyl Slabbert...Progressive Party was advocating qualified franchise was opportunity lost.

This form of government is the only solution for this country and indeed Africa but alas the masses are too thick to grasp this concept and the damage done by verkrampte nationists is too vast for any real restitution.

This is indeed a simple ideal but the backwardness of the thought pattern process is too dense in Africa.