Newsweek: South African President Pushes to Seize Farms Without Compensation, Sparking Opposition Anger
South Africa’s opposition has reacted angrily to a push from the country’s ruling party to change the constitution to allow the expropriation of land from farmers without compensation.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has criticized President Cyril Ramaphosa for announcing that his ruling African National Congress (ANC) party would try to push through the amendment to Article 25.
About one-tenth of land in white ownership has been transferred to black ownership since the end of apartheid, which is only about a third of the ANC’s target, the BBC reported.
The ANC had tried to test whether land redistribution could be allowed under current laws, but Ramaphosa said in a video address Tuesday that this needed to be clarified.
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WNU Editor: Meanwhile attacks against white South African farmers are taking a deadly toll .... 'The white minority took our land. Enough is enough' (ABC News Online). More here .... ‘Their throats were slit, they were tortured’: Foreign Correspondent investigates South Africa farm attacks (Frank Chung, News.com.au).
More News On The South African Government Preparing To Seize White Farmlands Without Compensation
South Africa's ANC to try to change constitution to allow seizing land -- DW
South Africa's ANC to amend constitution to allow land expropriation -- Reuters
South Africa to change its constitution to speed up redistribution of white-owned land to the country's poor black majority -- Daily Mail
ANC Pushes South African Land-Seizure Plan as Election Looms -- Bloomberg
South African white lobby group calls ANC land plan "catastrophic" -- Reuters
South Africa's new land war is economic insanity -- Tom Rogan, Washington Examiner
