SA’s watershed moment requires citizens to stand up and be counted – IRR
28 February 2019
South Africans need to speak clearly and forcefully for their interests if they are to secure the future of the country as a free and prosperous society. This was the message delivered by Institute of Race Relations (IRR) project manager Terence Corrigan at the launch of the Southern African Agricultural Initiative (SAAI) in Pretoria today.
South Africa faces serious challenges, especially the threat to property rights in the drive towards Expropriation without Compensation, which is codified in the Expropriation Bill and reinforced by the determination of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) to force through an amendment to the constitution.
‘Today we are at a watershed moment,’ said Corrigan. ‘This is a point at which we need to declare a willingness to confront, however heretical it seems, the implications of the ideological currents that shape the decisions and policies taken by the South African government.’
The fate of farmers was ‘the litmus test of what will happen to us all. Given what is at stake, in many respects all South Africans are commercial farmers today’.