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South Africa towards expropriation
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A man dressed in traditional Voortrekker (Boer who took part in the Great Trek migration from the Cape colony towards east and north in the 1830') attire, holds a Flintlock gun at the Voortrekker Monument on Heritage Day on September 24, 2018. - People of Afrikaner descent gathered at the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria on September 24, 2018 to celebrate Heritage day. (Photo by WIKUS DE WET / AFP) Land in South Africa is an element that goes beyond its already important economic function. Control of the land and its resources, the possibility of owning hectares and farms are circumstances that have a significant impact on the most pressing issue in the country: that is, the racial one and which concerns the claims of the ancient ethnic groups that make up the South African nation. In the 1913 il Native Land Act has been seen, already at the time, as a forerunner of possible tensions and clashes between the white population and the black population. With that rule buying or renting land in South Africa becomes very difficult, in fact, blacks are denied many possibilities in this sense and in some cases it even leads to expropriation. Today history repeats itself with all the worries that come when, in the country, we talk about land. But this time the situation is reversed: it's the government, led by the African National Congress, which wants to give the State the possibility to expropriate lands without compensation and redistribute them. Now it is the population of European origin, gli Africans, to fear more. Read More

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South Africa changes the constitution to expropriate land from whites
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The ruling African National Congress party will carry forward the constitutional amendment project in order to be able to expropriate the lands of white farmers without any monetary compensation
Of Jacopo Bongini
The government's efforts continue South Africa in erasing any remaining residue of the’apartheid, the policy of racial segregation that from 1948 al 1991 made the African country famous throughout the world. As reported by the Reuters agency, Yesterday the president Cyril Ramaphosa he actually stated, in a public address to the nation, who together with his government intends to push for a change to the constitution, so that it is possible’expropriation of land to white farmers without any right to economic compensation, stating that: “It is now clear that our people want the constitution to be more explicit on the expropriation of land without compensation.
L'Anc, through the parliamentary process, will finalize the proposed amendment to the constitution, which will more clearly outline the conditions under which expropriation of land without compensation can be carried out, acting in the public interest”. Until today the’African National Congress, the ruling party in power continuously since 1994, he has always tried to express himself cautiously on a possible constitutional amendment, considering it a risky strategy, and declaring already last May that the expropriation without compensation could still have been implemented also through the laws currently in force. In recent days, however, the situation seems to have worsened, arriving yesterday at the explicit declarations of President Ramaphosa. Read More

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