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Committe Vows End of Legalized Land Theft

Now that the Communist-ANC has announced a rethink on its dreaded Expropriation Bill, free-market property advocates have vowed to make sure legalized land theft never takes place in South Africa.

In a press release, The Interim (Ad Hoc) Committee for the Defence of Property Rights, an informal grouping of organizations and political parties from across South Africa’s political and social spectrum, says it “recognises the necessity of expropriation for any state and government, but then this should not take place in contravention of the Constitution and other international norms and standards, as the proposed Expropriation Bill would be doing.”

The group acknowledges that the Expropriation Bill is part of the “National Democratic Revolution” and the Communist-ANC intends to re-write the Bill and resubmit it to Parliament in the future. To that end, The Ad Hoc Committee also intends to work with the Minister of Public Works to establish what the department intends to do about the Expropriation issue and ensure property rights remain intact in South Africa.

“The Expropriation Bill is but an underlying symptom of the broader trend in government policy,” say the Ad Hoc Committee in their press release. “The South African government is busy turning its back on international principles and standards.  This simply cannot be allowed to happen at all – the responsibility rests with civil society to do everything possible to prevent this.”

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By NewsGuy – August 26, 2008

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    [...] seller” laws in the country and a “rethink” on the dreaded Expropriation Bill, which was defeated this past [...]

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    [...] called upon members of the ad hoc committee to continue with a united effort and to focus their resistance against a re-packaged Expropriation [...]

  3. South Africa Bungles "Land Reform" | The Right Perspective linked to this post on November 21, 2008

    [...] “Land reform” in South Africa means taking already-productive farms and giving them to people who, in the majority of cases, preside over their collapse. The long-standing policy differs from the legalized theft attempted by this year’s failed passage of the Expropriation Bill. [...]

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