This has been bubbling for years as a white nationalist whine. About whites in SA being "genocided." There's been a lot of violent crime. Done politicians have been talking about this. I don't think that it's happened to family farms.
At the risk of making a comment that will start a culture-war fight, how bad is the Expropriation Act? I can't tell from the Wikipedia-level descriptions if it's a symbolic sop to the left that poses no danger, a prelude to mass-expropriation, or a law that could be harmless or disastrous depending on how future governments choose to implement it (or perhaps option 4, a law that indicates you should get out because you are at the mercy of the worst future government).
It’s not that bad. From the BBC : The new law allows for expropriation without compensation only in circumstances where it is "just and equitable and in the public interest" to do so.
This includes if the property is not being used and there's no intention to either develop or make money from it or when it poses a risk to people.
The president's spokesperson Vincent Magwenya said that, under the law, the state "may not expropriate property arbitrarily or for a purpose other than... in the public interest".
"Expropriation may not be exercised unless the expropriating authority has without success attempted to reach an agreement with the owner," he added.
"Rarely are refugees screened and processed in their home countries, as Afrikaner were."
That's why a few of them have been spewing unhinged joo hate for years in social media.
Meanwhile the opportunistic philosemitism as justification for all sorts of repressive f-ckery.
This has been bubbling for years as a white nationalist whine. About whites in SA being "genocided." There's been a lot of violent crime. Done politicians have been talking about this. I don't think that it's happened to family farms.
At the risk of making a comment that will start a culture-war fight, how bad is the Expropriation Act? I can't tell from the Wikipedia-level descriptions if it's a symbolic sop to the left that poses no danger, a prelude to mass-expropriation, or a law that could be harmless or disastrous depending on how future governments choose to implement it (or perhaps option 4, a law that indicates you should get out because you are at the mercy of the worst future government).
It’s not that bad. From the BBC : The new law allows for expropriation without compensation only in circumstances where it is "just and equitable and in the public interest" to do so.
This includes if the property is not being used and there's no intention to either develop or make money from it or when it poses a risk to people.
The president's spokesperson Vincent Magwenya said that, under the law, the state "may not expropriate property arbitrarily or for a purpose other than... in the public interest".
"Expropriation may not be exercised unless the expropriating authority has without success attempted to reach an agreement with the owner," he added.