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Jessie Duarte’s Outdated Ideology on Land Expropriation without Compensation Represents Unworkable & Unrealistic ANC Factional Thinking

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The Ad Hoc Group for the Protection of Property Rights has taken note of ANC Secretary-General Jessie Duarte’s remarks on Monday, on Expropriation without Compensation at a media conference. During the interview, she elaborated on the ideological fiction that expropriation without compensation (EWC) is at the heart of economic development.

This position flies directly in the face of a finding by the Institute of Race Relations that expropriation threatens “the property rights of all South Africans: from the 9.5 million people with homeownership to the approximately 18 million with customary law plots and the estimated 17 million who are members of pension funds. It would also harm all business owners, large and small. At the same time, the economic consequences of the Bill would further harm the 11 million individuals who are currently unemployed, by reducing investment, limiting growth and hampering post-lockdown recovery.”

 

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SA’s past cannot be rewritten or changed – EFF’s motion to remove so-called colonial symbols across SA promotes racial polarization

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The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) have once again strive to remove all so-called colonial symbols from the Free State’s province. The party will table a motion containing allegations that blacks have no images of heroes in the Free State and that only white heroes are represented in the Free State, during the upcoming legislative session on October 22, 2019.

The EFF demands that historical symbols, as seen in the Fourth Council Chamber, as well as the statue of Gen. Christiaan de Wet, to be removed. In its motion, the EFF argues that the removal of these symbols will contribute to the eradication of colonialism.

Jan van Niekerk, provincial leader of the FF plus in the Free State believes that this attack on Afrikaner history contradicts nation-building and promotes racial polarization. He argues that the history of all racial groups must be respected. He adds that Gen. de Wet, however, fought against colonialism and had no involvement in the apartheid era. The FF Plus is
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Despite his promise of a “new dawn”, Ramaphosa can’t stop the ANC-regime’s decline, even with a win at the polls

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In recent months there has been conjecture that if South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa wins a suitably large majority of the upcoming national vote, he will be able to achieve two notable outcomes.

Firstly, he’ll be able reverse the governing African National Congress’s (ANC’s) slide into populism and factionalism. And he’ll be able to see off challenges from the radical Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), the country’s third largest party.

The argument is that he would then have a sufficiently strong mandate to undertake economic reforms needed to fix South Africa. This includes broadening competition, limiting the size and scope of the state-owned entities and expanding the public transport system. Other things that need fixing include reducing red tape to boost entrepreneurship and small businesses, improving the education system and trade integration in the region.

But critics and opposition party leaders hold a counter view. T
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