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Increase in international community’s stance against expropriation without compensation
AfriForum welcomes the fact that the New South Wales Legislative Council in Australia carried a motion yesterday that strongly condemns expropriation without reasonable compensation (EWC). The motion read inter alia that the Council strongly condemned a) any call for the murder, marginalisation, prosecution, victimisation or targeting of any racial group in South Africa by any…
AfriForum and AfriBusiness host information session in Kimberley on land expropriation
AfriBusiness hosted an information session on land expropriation without compensation in cooperation with AfriForum on Wednesday evening, 18 April 2018. This session addressed the public’s need to obtain accurate information on the current process of legalising expropriation without compensation. Armand Greyling, legal and policy analyst for AfriBusiness, warned people to participate in the public participation…
AfriForum wants to make oral submission to Parliament on expropriation without compensation
The civil rights organisation AfriForum submitted a formal request to make an oral submission to the parliamentary committee tasked with reviewing Section 25 of the Constitution. Ernst Roets, Deputy CEO of AfriForum, writes in a letter to Vincent Smith, Chairperson of the committee, that AfriForum represents more than 200 000 members of the public as…
Working people and owners of private property excluded from public participation over expropriation
The civil rights organisation AfriForum expressed its objection to the fact that working people are excluded from the public participation process that the parliamentary committee is arranging regarding expropriation without compensation. This follows after the committee announced that all the public participation meetings will take place at 11:00 in the morning. AfriForum earlier wrote to…
AfriForum says true significance of 2018 SONA will only become evident once Ramaphosa honeymoon ends
In response to the 2018 State of the Nation Address (SONA) just delivered by Pres Cyril Ramaphosa, AfriForum stated that it will only be possible to judge its contents properly once the President’s political honeymoon comes to an end and the real meaning of his references to, amongst other issues, transformation and land expropriation become…
AfriForum says facts show that the disregard of property rights and farm murders is a serious threat in South Africa
The civil rights organisation AfriForum said today at a media conference in Pretoria that the information which this organisation is currently spreading in the international community on expropriation without compensation and farm murders, is based on facts that confirm that there is a serious threat to property rights and human lives in South Africa. This…