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2024 ELECTION MANIFESTO
THE EFF
PLAN OF ACTION ON LAND
1. The EFF government’s approach to the resolution of the land question will continue to be anchored on the principle of expropriation of land without compensation for equal redistribution and use, and for the State to be the custodian of all land in South Africa.
2. The EFF government will reintroduce the motion to amend the constitution to permit expropriation of land without compensation.
3. The EFF government will amend section 25 of the Constitution to read as follows:
25. Property
(1) The State, including PARLIAMENT, the EXECUTIVE AND the JUDICIARY, CARRIES AN OBLIGATION TO REDRESS IMBALANCES OF THE PAST THROUGH ENACTMENT OF LAWS THAT WILL ACHIEVE REDRESS AND EQUITABLY REDISTRIBUTE ALL RESOURCES.
(2) Property may be expropriated without compensation only in terms of law of general application— _(b) for a public purpose or in the public interest;
(a) REMOVE SUB-SECTION 3 and replace with:
(3) The State is the Custodian of all south Africa’s natural resources, inclusive of land, mineral resources, and water, and relevant legislation should be passed to clearly define and contextualize State custodianship of natural resources
(4) For the purposes of this section—
the public interest includes the nation’s commitment to land reform and to reforms to bring about equitable access to all South Africa’s natural resource, and property is not limited to land
The state must take reasonable legislative and other measures, within its available resources, to foster conditions which enable citizens to gain access to land on an equitable basis.
A person or community whose tenure of land is legally insecure as a result of past racially discriminatory laws or practices is entitled, to the extent provided by an Act of Parliament, either to tenure which is legally secure or to comparable redress.
REMOVE SUB-SECTION 7
No provision of this section may impede the state from taking legislative and other measures to achieve land, water, and related reform, in order to redress the results of past racial discrimination, provided that any departure from the provisions of this section is in accordance with the provisions of section 36 (1). Parliament must enact the legislation referred to in subsection (6).
4. The EFF government will introduce legislation, either through an amended Constitution or within the context of the current Constitution, to make the State custodian of all South African land.
5. The EFF government will introduce restrictions to foreign land ownership (land use rights), targeting specifically the hoarding of land by multinationals and billionaires.
6. The EFF government will introduce limitations in terms of the size of land individuals can own/have rights to. This will be determined by a solid study of agro-ecological limits of the various districts in the country.
7. The EFF government will fast-track the distribution of land through the land redistribution programme, and transfer 50% of the land to black people within the first five years in government.
8. The EFF government takes cognizance of the difficulties faced by the land restitution programme and will do away with land restitution as a mechanism for land reform, and have the land reform programme anchored mainly by land redistribution instead of restitution.
9. The EFF government will address urban land poverty by releasing state land and abandoned buildings for housing purposes.
10. The EFF government will conduct a thorough land use audit across the country, with the purpose of delineating specific pieces of land for specific land use purposes.
11. The EFF will declare specific areas as agricultural protected areas in order to protect agricultural land from being converted into other land uses.
12. The EFF government will regulate the exercise of chiefly power in rural areas, in order to ensure that the allocation of land is done in an open and fair manner, specifically geared towards empowering women and the youth.
13. The EFF government will clarify the land administration powers of traditional leadership, to limit the contestation between traditional leaders and municipalities on land use rights.
14. The EFF government will establish a People’s Land Court in each of the provincial divisions of the High Court, to have exclusive jurisdiction to handle all land-related disputes.
15. The EFF government will establish a Land Ombudsman, who will have powers similar to a chapter nine institution, mandated to investigate and make rulings on land disputes between the people and the State.
16. The EFF government will prioritize women and young people in its allocation of land use rights.
17. The EFF government will outlaw the strategic partnership arrangement used for the management of land reform sites, as this benefits white farmers more than resettled black communities.
18. The EFF government will provide pre-settlement planning and post-settlement support to each person or community allocated land use rights, to ensure that the land allocated is fully utilized for its intended purposes.
19. The EFF government will introduce land development grants through the Land Bank, targeting specifically emerging black farmers.
20. The EFF government will offer tax rebates to private companies investing in the development of the land for the benefit of emerging black farmers.
21. The EFF government will ensure that South African land is one unitary entity, and will repeal Constitutional reforms to do away with the so called right to self-determination entrenched in Section 235 of the Constitution.
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Issued by the Economic Freedom Fighters, 10 February 2024. Full PDF can be read here.
