The FF Plus laid a criminal charge against the ANC councillor Sephiri Lephoko, who reportedly encouraged community members during a community meeting on Sunday, 5 August 2018, to illegally occupy land near the Meloding informal settlement at Virginia. The charge is formulated in terms of the Riotous Assemblies Act No 17 of 1956, seeing as..
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ANC’s councillor incites illegal landgrab on farm in Virginia where nearly 300ha of veld was deliberately burnt down
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Democratic Alliance tests SABC impartiality claim
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The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) knew President Cyril Ramaphosa’s late night announcement on land expropriation without compensation was in his capacity as ANC president and not as president of the republic, according to the Democratic Alliance (DA).
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Ruling party is leading South Africa down the same destruction path as Zimbabwe
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I never used to struggle answering the question, “Is South Africa going down the road of Zimbabwe?”My stock answer, until recently, was: “No, of course not. We have a strong judiciary and a fearless media. We have free and fair elections. The rule of law reigns supreme.” After reading my colleague Mondli Makhanya’s seminal opinion..
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ANC opened door for land grabs in South Africa
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The ANC opened the door wide for land grabs to occur in South Africa and it will be of such great magnitude that the ANC will not be able to manage it. The announcement by President Cyril Ramaphosa late Tuesday evening, 31 July 2018, that the ANC will proceed with the process of amending Section..
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Well this is not new:- ANC KZN defends Zuma for BLF comments
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The leadership of the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal believes the party should not act against former president Jacob Zuma over his endorsement of Black First Land First (BLF) outside court last weekend.
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Mmusi Maimane calls for urgent parliamentary sitting after ANC ‘jumped the gun’ on land
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Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Mmusi Maimane has written to National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete to convene an urgent parliamentary sitting to debate the ANC’s “deliberate undermining” of the process to amend the Constitution on land.
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Rustenburg hearing: ‘Only expropriate white-owned land’
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The parliamentary constitutional review committee heard on Thursday that only land belonging to white people should be expropriated without compensation. This is according to one of the hundreds of community members in Rustenburg who attended parliament’s North West leg of public hearings on whether section 25 of the Constitution‚ which deals with property rights‚ should..
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Who Stole Land From Who, Which Land and When? FactsMatter
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I speak on behalf of a sizeable portion of South Africa who would once and for all like to know exactly which Whites stole which pieces of land and from which Blacks.
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ANC in KwaZulu-Natal kicks off provincial land summit
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The ANC in KwaZulu-Natal has kicked off its provincial land summit to consolidate a position on how to go about expropriating privately owned land ahead of next week’s parliamentary hearings on land reform.
Provincial leaders have made it clear that the summit will deal with how to implement the governing party’s resolutions on expropriation of land without compensation and not with issues of land tenure and the future of land which falls under institutions like the Ingonyama Trust.
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The DA accuses the ANC of instigating Western Cape land protests
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The Democratic Alliance (DA) caucus in the Western Cape province has accused the ANC of spurring on land occupations around the Cape in an effort to bully their party.
Around the Cape, land occupations and protests have taken place as communities demand decent housing.
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Another day of terror for Mosiuoa Lekota (COPE)
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Congress of the People (Cope) leader Mosioua Lekota should be worried about his party’s chances in the 2019 general elections if sentiments expressed by participants in the public hearings into proposed amendments to the Constitution are anything to go by.
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Land Confiscation Will Redistribute Poverty, Not Wealth! 180 Billion Rand’s Mortgages, Food Production and SA Economy Will Be Destroyed
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Zimbabwe 2.0 – The South African economy and the nation’s food production could collapse if the government seizes land from white farmers and redistributes it to black citizens, a local race relations organization has said. The move, approved by the ruling African National Congress (ANC) regime as well as the opposition EFF party earlier this..
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Rubber bullets fired at EFF-led Brakpan land occupiers after they refused to leave
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Land occupiers in the Old Brakpan township were awoken by rubber bullets hitting the doors of their newly built shacks on Tuesday morning as Metro Police evicted the occupiers and demolished 300 shacks. According to Metro Police, only occupants who had lived in the informal settlement for more than a year could stay because their..
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ANC’s anti-apartheid stalwart Andrew Mlangeni warns ANC government that Afrikaners will not go down without a fight
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Andrew Mlangeni told an audience that included Ramaphosa government should start with giving its own land away first.
The ANC’s 93-year-old anti-apartheid stalwart Andrew Mlangeni has reportedly warned that government’s land reform project could be ruinous if handled badly because of Afrikaners’ unwillingness not to “allow it to go ahead without a fight”.
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Proposal of political analyst: ‘We don’t just want land, we want property too’
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Proposal of political analyst: ‘We don’t just want land, we want property too’
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