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As reported in news.com.au, South Africa's Parliament have voted to "expropriate" land from white farmers with no compensation.
From TFA:
The motion was brought by Julius Malema, leader of the radical Marxist opposition party the Economic Freedom Fighters, and passed overwhelmingly by 241 votes to 83 against. The only parties who did not support the motion were the Democratic Alliance, Freedom Front Plus, Cope and the African Christian Democratic Party
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"The time for reconciliation is over. Now is the time for justice," Mr Malema was quoted by News24 as telling parliament. "We must ensure that we restore the dignity of our people without compensating the criminals who stole our land."
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Mr Malema has been leading calls for land confiscation, forcing the ANC to follow suit out of fear of losing the support of poorer black voters. In 2016, he told supporters he was "not calling for the slaughter of white people‚ at least for now"
This policy has been tried in other African countries before, most recently Zimbabwe, with disastrous results. The farms appropriated usually fail rapidly, leading to food shortages and economic destruction. Will South Africa be able to avoid repeating history, or is it about to slide into 3rd World status?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by DrkShadow on Wednesday February 28 2018, @03:24PM (1 child)
Say a year? Or even 3 months.. if a woman walks up to someone and starts hitting them and walks off with something the thug was obviously carrying when the thug arrived at the location, it would seem the woman ought to be charged with a crime. She couldn't recover the property when it was stolen? That's unfortunate, but our system doesn't work on "an eye for an eye" sort of thing.
Suppose someone sets up a tent, squats on your land, as you said. By law, if they do that for seven years and keep the land up, they own that land. https://www.seattlepi.com/seattlenews/article/Prosecutors-Squatters-tried-to-homestead-5867943.php [seattlepi.com]
If the original owners are dead, and the current owners weren't alive when this crime was commit, to whom are they returning this property and how are the original criminals punished?
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday February 28 2018, @08:05PM
This would include paying the taxes, when noone else was paying the taxes - that's a law designed to simplify title searches by establishing "quiet title" after a period of 7 years of normal looking ownership.
I'm presuming that if the squatters were also attempting to pay your taxes, you'd make a fuss to ensure everyone knew you hadn't handed over title to them.
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