EFF STATEMENT ON CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO ALLOW LAND EXPROPRIATION WITHOUT COMPENSATION
Wednesday, I August, 2018
The Economic Freedom Fighters notes that the ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa has finally capitulated and submitted to the basic logic of amending section 25 of South Africa's Constitution to allow for expropriation of Land without Compensation.
This was after months of the ANC's confusing and contradictory statements and assurances to white minority owners and controllers of South Africa's land and economy that no Constitutional Amendment will be made. After its land Summit, the ANC had produced an ideologically and politically confused resolution that expropriation of Land without compensation can and should happen within the current Constitutional framework.
The resolute submissions of the people on the ground and in all the public hearings exposed the ANC to the fact that an absolute majority of black people agree with the EFF's steadfast and consistent position that the Constitution should be amended to allow for expropriation of Land without compensation. This illustrates that when given an opportunity, the people of South Africa are always ready to provide resolute guidance on key economic and redress Questions. Were it not for the EFF's motion that the Constitutional Review Committee should conduct public hearings, the ANC elite, like they did in the land summit, would still be swimming in the confusion that expropriation without compensation can happen without changing the constitution.
The EFF has provided a platform for the people of South Africa to govern.