AfriForum response in reaction to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s statement that those who would like to mobilise the international community against “their own country”, should “come back home for inclusive dialogue”, is that the President should not confuse South Africa’s interests with the ANC’s policies.
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Expropriation, AfriForum reaction to Ramaphosa’s statement
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Land debate in South Africa is about dignity and equality— not the Constitution
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The country’s current debate over land expropriation without compensation, which has now been endorsed by Parliament, is important. Not because, as some fear, it will radically change the constitution. Rather, it tells South Africans how, in the economy and other spheres, the country deals with its minority ruled past: by crisis followed by compromise.
Crises are the only way change happens because, since the 1970s, the goal of the minority which has called the shots in the society for decades has been to ensure that changes alter as little as possible.
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ANC’s plan to steal property places South Africa on Zimbabwean road
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The civil rights watchdog AfriForum says that the ANC’s decision to amend South Africa’s Constitution to allow expropriation without compensation boils down to a decision to commit theft and to place the country on the same road of destruction that Zimbabwe followed in its violation of property rights. According to Kallie Kriel, CEO of AfriForum,..
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Record number of farmers are selling up and leaving amid increasing fears of land grabs
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Farmers are anxious about the growing number of South Africans forcefully ‘reclaiming land’ without giving owners any compensation. The backdrop of high input costs, low returns and a weakening rand is also scaring many in the profession into walking away whilst they can still recuperate some value from their operations. These findings have been published..
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