AfriForum submitted its comments on the proposed policy on the selection of beneficiaries and allocation of land today, and reiterated that the civil rights organisation intended launching several legal actions against expropriation without compensation, if necessary. In the legal opinion that AfriForum submitted to the Director-General of Rural Development and Land Reform today, it is…

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Stop expropriation without compensation!

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”3.22″][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_countdown_timer date_time=”2021-02-28 23:00″ _builder_version=”4.1″][/et_pb_countdown_timer][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.1″ hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″] The ANC persists in amending the Constitution to enable it to expropriate any property without compensation. The parliamentary ad hoc committee on amending section 25 of the Constitution to allow for expropriation without compensation accepted its…

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AfriForum starts campaign against Expropriation Bill

The civil rights organisation AfriForum today launched a campaign to involve the public in taking a stand against the Draft Bill on Expropriation after Thulas Nxesi, Minister of Public Works, published the Draft Bill in the Government Gazette on 21 December 2018 and invited the public to comment within sixty days. The campaign is driven through the…

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Motion over land reform a violation of the 1994 agreement

AfriForum labelled today’s motion that was accepted in Parliament, in terms of which a process will be launched to execute land reform without compensation, as a violation of the 1994 agreement. Ernst Roets, Deputy CEO of AfriForum, says that the historic settlement of 1994 was one in which the ANC – under the leadership of…

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AfriForum requests urgent discussion with Police Minister over farm murders and land grabs

AfriForum on 7 March 2018 sent a request to Genl. Bheki Cele, the new Minister of Police, with a view to arrange a meeting to discuss farm murders and illegal land occupation. This follows after numerous remarks from political circles since the beginning of the year over the expropriation of land without compensation. “Political remarks that increasingly…

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South African farmers are indeed in a serious crisis – Ernst Roets

The New York Times responded to the recent tweet by President Donald Trump on the situation in South Africa with two scathing articles: One by Kimon de Greef and Palko Karasz, who argue that the President’s tweet was based on ‘false claims’; the other by Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Norimitsu Onishi, who argue that the…

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Warning by world powers proves Ramaphosa cannot mislead them regarding property rights and crime

The warning sent by the USA, UK, Germany, Netherlands and Switzerland by memorandum addressed to President Cyril Ramaphosa regarding the threat posed to foreign investment by crime, uncertainty about property rights and corruption, according to AfriForum is the strongest indication to date that the international community is not being misled by the beautiful image portrayed by Ramaphosa….

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