Despite the wholesale attack on agriculture and white farmers in South Africa threatening food security, The Times (Johannesburg) believes “land reform” or land grab is a worthy goal, seemingly blind to what a much milder form of the same policy … Read the rest
Tag: expropriation
An end to free government housing?
Human Settlements Minister Lindiwe Sisulu wants to end to free government housing.
“Somebody has to have the courage to say this is not what we intended,” she said. Free housing was not in the Freedom Charter, which talked of there … Read the rest
Zimbabwe arrives in SA: ANC’s plan for expropriation
Dr Anthea Jeffery, head of Special Research at the Institute of Race Relations, says the Investment Bill opens the door to expropriation without compensation and is a new Expropriation Bill by another name.
Media coverage of the Promotion and Protection … Read the rest
Shares in farms a smoke-screen for expropriation
The issue of proposed shares for farmworkers is a thinly disguised attempt by government to expropriate farms and could allow the uncertainty amongst South African farmers about their future to reach crisis levels, Mr. Pieter Groenewald, the Freedom Front Plus’ … Read the rest