20 October 2020 - The newly gazetted Expropriation Bill of 2020 will allow the government to nationalise far more than land. Homes, business premises, mining rights, shares, and many other assets fall within the Bill’s definition of ‘property’ and will be equally vulnerable to expropriation without compensation.
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19 October 2020 - Times without number in the last couple of decades, politicians and pundits have warned us all that unemployment is a “ticking time bomb”. The figures are horrifying. They were horrifying even before this year’s Covid-19 lockdowns made them even worse.
19 October 2020 - Something important seems to have gone entirely unremarked in your analysts’ coverage of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s economic recovery plan: a mere week before he presented it, his administration introduced a draft law that runs directly counter to the president’s intentions to stimulate economic growth and job creation.
18 October 2020 - Optimism is probably South Africans’ most ironic quality — and an asset you would imagine it would be foolish to take for granted.
18 October 2020 - There’s always a risk of making too much of small details, of freighting them with larger meanings they perhaps can’t possibly carry.
18 October 2020 - In “New Expropriation Bill set to go through parliament” (The Citizen, 11 October), public works minister Patricia De Lille is reported as proudly listing some of the government agencies which the new law will empower to expropriate property, namely “the president, seven ministers, all provincial premiers and all municipalities”. (In fact, there are even more agencies that have the power to expropriate.)
18 October 2020 - As daar enigiets positief is van die “ekonomiese herstelplan” wat pres. Cyril Ramaphosa die afgelope week bekend gemaak het, is dat dit die agteruitgang van die ANC-regering gaan verhaas en so die weg vir werklike oplossings van die land se probleme gaan baan.
18 October 2020 - It would be a mistake to see the sad case of Mpumalanga farmers who face losing their land as primarily another corruption story: “Black farmers refuse to pay bribes, kicked off state-owned farms” (City Press, October 11 2020). This case reflects the deep flaws in South Africa’s land reform programme.
17 October 2020 - South Africans have been told to feel calm-to-positive about the Expropriation Bill gazette last Friday. Among other things, the bill lays out five circumstances in which private property may be expropriated without compensation (EWC).
16 October 2020 - Property rights are among the issues on which the future of South Africa will be decided. This is a framework issue for the country’s economy. Get it right, and there is a chance of economic acceleration, prosperity and all that comes with it. Get it wrong, and it will condemn South Africa to years of stagnation and impoverishment.
16 October 2020 - President Cyril Ramaphosa used his latest weekly newsletter to exhort South Africans to unite to confront crime, specifically as it afflicts farming communities. "If we are to succeed in tackling violent crime, particularly in rural communities, we must confront this trauma and challenge the racial attitudes that prevent a united response."
16 October 2020 - Events in Senekal underline the need not just for honest, rational debate about key challenges facing South Africa, but practical solutions capable of uniting the reasonable majority of South Africans.