The poor performance of the Rand is definitely not good news for motorists. The Rand fell more than 8%, partly due to the mess on the Turkish financial markets. Although the oil price is relatively stable and even slightly lower, the weak rand will push the fuel price upward. The rand also visibly weakened after..
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Rand fall and fuel prices rise after government’s reckless statements about land expropriation
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Two farm attacks in the Waterberg district in the last 48 hours has left Democratic Alliance (DA) leader in Limpopo, Jacques Smalle, calling for more to be done
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According to Smalle, farm manager Jasper von Clause was fatally shot on Wednesday. His partner and son were also wounded during the same attack at Dale Farm just outside Lephalale.
The second attack took place on Thursday evening between Roedtan and Mookgopong. Ockie Breedt Jnr was stabbed eight times by two unknown attackers who are currently still at large
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#LandExpropriationWithoutCompensation: Farmers warn of bitter fight
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Johannesburg – Farmers’ organisation Transvaal Agricultural Union of SA (TAU-SA) on Wednesday warned it would use every means possible to stop the expropriation of land without compensation.
This came as Arts and Culture Minister Nathi Mthethwa slammed British Prime Minister Theresa May over the thorny issue of land.
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Malema:” what happens to the land once it is expropriated is nobody else’s business”
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Commander in Chief of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), Julius Malema, said what happens to the land once it is expropriated is nobody else’s business.
Malema said the EFF would not be blackmailed and threatened by anybody, as the wheels of expropriation without compensation have already been set in motion. He said there was nothing they could say or do to deter them from that goal
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Leader of the Freedom Front Plus (FF Plus), Piet Groenewald, said land expropriation without compensation would be a gross human rights violation.
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As the majority of South Africans commemorate Human Rights Day, Groenewald will lead a delegation to a gathering of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation (UNPO), which will sit in Belgium this week.
Groenewald will address the sitting and at the heart of his presentation will be the FF Plus resistance to land expropriation without compensation
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Mabuza:’ land must be returned to the landless.’
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Deputy President David Mabuza has told Parliament during his first question session in the National Assembly that land must be returned to the landless.
Mabuza took to the podium for his maiden outing in his new post in Parliament on Tuesday to answer six questions and their follow-ups in the House
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Cabinet welcomes land exploration motion
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Cape Town – Cabinet is concerned “when people go internationally to protect white supremacy”, Minister of Communications Nomvula Mokonyane said at a post-Cabinet media briefing on Thursday.
She added that the people at the extremes of the land debate – those propagating land grabs on the one end and those “demonstrating supremacy” – did not represent the whole of South Africa.
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Ramaphosa dodges explaining land reform plan
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President Cyril Ramaphosa has reiterated the government’s support for land expropriation without compensation, but dodged explaining to gathered MPs if the state has worked out a detailed plan to make it happen.
Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane had submitted a question in Parliament on how the state plans to expropriate land without paying for it. But Ramaphosa’s response was that there will be “broad discussions” and that Parliament’s Constitution Review Committee will decide on whether the Constitution should be amended.
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Land grab without compensation is state-sanctioned theft: Maimane
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DA leader Mmusi Maimane said on Monday that expropriation of land without compensation is state-sanctioned theft.
Maimane‚ addressing a press conference at Constitution Hill on Monday‚ said his party will continue opposing the proposed constitutional amendments to effect expropriation without compensation.
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THE issue of land expropriation without compensation came under the spotlight when Cope leader Mosiuoa Lekota raised it in Parliament this week.
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DURBAN -Referring to the Indian community, Lekota asked what would happen to the land that the descendants of indentured labourers had inherited from their great-grandparents.
Dispossessing them of land or property their great-grandparents had worked hard to buy was “not acceptable”, he said.
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