Land bungle busts the myth that the ANC wants to make black South Africans property owners – IRR
28 October 2020 - The ANC’s ideological opposition to allowing black South Africans to become freehold landowners in a prosperous, property-owning democracy has turned its announcement on releasing 700 000 hectares of ‘vacant and underutilised’ land for agricultural development into a public relations disaster.
28 October 2020 - The case for immediate, practical reforms in policing is inescapably clear from the frighteningly high levels of serious and violent crime facing South Africans.
28 October 2020 - The three legal experts cited in the report 'Should you be afraid of the new Expropriation Bill? We ask 3 legal experts' (22 October) are wrong in saying the 2020 Expropriation Bill "gives clarity", "is an important check on state power", applies solely to land needed for public projects and is necessary for successful land reform.
27 October 2020 - It would be reassuring — in a way — to profess oneself “shocked” at news that the government intends offering for “redistribution” state-owned landholdings that are already being worked successfully by black farmers. (“Farms on Land Reform List Are Already Occupied”, October 25). Unfortunately, with an understanding of the land-reform malaise, one cannot.
27 October 2020 - In responding to concerns regarding the latest draft of the contentious Expropriation Bill, gazetted on 9 October, South Africa’s land minister is reported as assuring investors that the process of enabling the government to seize property without compensation would not be allowed to “degenerate into a free-for-all”.
25 October 2020 - In one respect at least, the government’s latest economic plan is a vast improvement on its most famous predecessor: at 38 pages, the South African Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan published earlier this month is only about one twentieth of the length of the National Development Plan (NDP) adopted in 2012.
25 October 2020 - The current Expropriation Act of 1975 contradicts the constitution and needs to be changed. However, the government’s proposed Expropriation Bill, which was gazetted earlier this month, is as unconstitutional as the law it is intended to replace.
23 October 2020 - Op 15 Oktober het president Cyril Ramaphosa tydens 'n gesamentlike sitting van die Parlement 'n herstelplan bekendgestel wat ten doel het om die Suid-Afrikaanse ekonomie te herbou wat deur die langdurige inperkings verwoes is.
23 October 2020 - Two weeks ago, City Press carried a depressing story on black farmers in Mpumalanga who stood to be removed from the state-owned land they were working.
22 October 2020 - Professor David Nabarro, the world’s highest-ranking expert on COVID-19, has said that the World Health Organisation (WHO) does not advocate lockdowns, since their only consequence is to “make poor people an awful lot poorer.”
Violent crime a frightening SA reality – IRR
22 October 2020 - South African men, women and children face frightening levels of violent crime.
21 October 2020 - The concept and scope of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan delivered last week bear a strong resemblance to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal of the 1930s.
