South Africa’s Parliamentary Committee Gives The Nod For Land Seizures From Illegal Colonial Holdover White Farmers

 

South Africa’s Parliamentary Committee Gives The Nod For Land Seizures From Illegal Colonial Holdover White Farmers

In March, South Africa’s parliament passed a motion initiated by the left-wing party Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) that may finally lead to the seizure of land from white farmers without any financial recompense.

South Africa’s parliamentary review committee has recommended that a constitutional change be made to accommodate the government’s policy of expropriating land without compensation.

“South Africans have spoken loud and clear and we listened to their cry,” the committee’s co-chair Lewis Nzimande pointed out.

The country’s ruling African National Congress (ANC), for its part, praised the committee for its “sterling work during and beyond the public hearing process”.

“We are confident that this position resonates with the aspiration of the overwhelming majority of our people. Land is not only an economic asset, it also restores the dignity of our people, who have been dispossessed of their land for centuries,” the ANC said.

South Africa’s opposition parties, in turn, slammed the committee’s work as “a complete farce”, saying in a joint statement that the expropriation without compensation vote helps the government avoid “having to explain their rank failure over the past two decades to take land reform seriously.

 

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