THE IMPORTANCE OF PROPERTY RIGHTS FOR SOUTH AFRICA
SPEECH BY FORMER PRESIDENT F W DE KLERK TO SAPOA DURBAN 31 MAY 2012-05-21 TODAY AND TOMORROW: THE IMPORTANCE OF PROPERTY RIGHTS FOR SOUTH AFRICA
2022-10-12
SPEECH BY FORMER PRESIDENT F W DE KLERK TO SAPOA DURBAN 31 MAY 2012-05-21 TODAY AND TOMORROW: THE IMPORTANCE OF PROPERTY RIGHTS FOR SOUTH AFRICA
Yesterday, the National Assembly adopted the Expropriation Bill and – with that – took a giant leap in undermining the rights of property owners in
SPEECH BY FORMER PRESIDENT FW DE KLERK TO THE AFRIKANERBOND 26 OCTOBER 2005 CALL FOR A NEW ORGANISATION TO PRESENT A COMMON
Over the past few months, fierce debate and widely divergent positions have marked the final stage of the Parliamentary Ad Hoc Committee’s race to complete
A SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF EXPROPRIATION WITHOUT COMPENSATION This is the Foundation’s third and final response to the government’s woefully inadequate socio-economic impact assessment (SEIA)
A SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF EXPROPRIATION WITHOUT COMPENSATION Sakeliga recently published the government’s woefully inadequate socio-economic impact assessment (SEIA) of the likely consequences of the
A SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF EXPROPRIATION WITHOUT COMPENSATION Sakeliga recently published the government’s woefully inadequate socio-economic impact assessment (SEIA) of the likely consequences of the
In a 30-page leaked document on land and the national question, titled What Then About Land Expropriation Without Compensation, the Thabo Mbeki Foundation (TMF) elucidates both historic context but crucially an analysis of a resolution of the ANC’s 54th National Conference in December 2017 on “land expropriation without compensation”. Without going into the settings of the document about the “glorious National Democratic Revolution” and its “victory of 1994”, the document presents some important perspectives about debates inside the ANC, especially about non-racialism and expropriation of land without compensation (EWC).
In the annual 8th January statement (delivered on the 13th January this year), ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa spelled out the central tasks of the ANC for 2018. He covered a wide range of themes and topics, and it is apparent that this is (as usual) not a piece drafted by the ANC president himself. There is the usual rhetoric about the National Democratic Revolution and the gains made in regard to its goals during the last number of years. Nevertheless, a careful reader will discern Ramaphosa’s hand and that of his close allies in a number of issues and the way they were presented and emphasized. Both the selection of these, as well as the way in which they were framed, are a far cry from those highlighted in the 8th January statements of the last nine years. At least three such issues can be distinguished, namely the economy, corruption and land reform. This article looks briefly at the first two and then continues to focus on land reform and property.