The decision of the ANC government to go ahead with changes to Section 25 of the Constitution \u2013 which relates to expropriation without compensation \u2013 is short-sighted, according to South African farmers’ union, TLU SA.<\/p>\n
A motion about the ad hoc committee which will initiate and introduce this legislation, was today approved by the National Assembly. The committee will continue where the fifth parliament ended in December 2018 and has to give feedback to the National Assembly by the end of March 2020.<\/p>\n
\u201cExpropriation without compensation will not deliver any good results,\u201d says Mr Louis Meintjes, the President of TLU<\/span> SA. \u201cResearch shows most of the applicants do not have the knowledge or capacity to sustainably manage the land, which at the moment contributes significantly to the rural and national economy. In most cases, they would instead opt to be financially compensated than to be in charge of the land.<\/p>\n \u201cThe past has shown us most of the land previously expropriated now lies barren because the government did not care enough to support the new owners to manage the land successfully.\u201d<\/p>\n TLU<\/span> SA believes that it is hugely irresponsible to go ahead with these amendments. Not only will it have a direct effect on farmers, their workers and the rural parts of the country, but also on the confidence foreign investors have in the future of the country.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen an investor\u2019s private ownership is implicated, it will naturally not be wise for them to invest their assets there,\u201d says Mr Meintjies.<\/p>\n \u201cThese types of decisions also have an effect on the safety of farmers with supporters of Andile Mngxitama of the BLF and like-minded people being swept up by the process and taking the law into their own hands.<\/p>\n \u201cJust last week President Ramaphosa said he condemns farm murders, but today his government makes decisions which contradicts it completely.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The decision of the ANC government to go ahead with changes to Section 25 of the Constitution \u2013 which relates to expropriation without compensation \u2013 is short-sighted, according to South African farmers’ union, TLU SA. A motion about the ad hoc committee which will initiate and introduce this legislation, was today approved by the National … Continue reading “Decision to continue with expropriation without compensation is short-sighted \u2013 TLU SA”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":20762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[397,12486,12484,12485],"class_list":["post-20761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-cyril-ramaphosa","tag-land-expropriation-without-compensation","tag-louis-meintjies","tag-tlu-sa"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"Cyril Ramaphosa","source_text":"","source_url":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/cyril_ramaphosa3.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20763,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20761\/revisions\/20763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}