White farmers' legal fight against plans to give their land to black South Africans without compensation is thrown out

[Sugar Cookie]

South Africa's High Court rejected a legal challenge today brought by a group representing white farmers against President Cyril Ramaphosa's plans for land expropriation without compensation.

Land is a hot-button issue in South Africa where racial inequality remains entrenched more than two decades after the end of apartheid when millions of the black majority were dispossessed of their land by a white minority.

Ramaphosa, who replaced scandal-plagued Jacob Zuma in February, has made land redistribution a flagship policy as he seeks to unite the fractured ruling African National Congress (ANC) and win public support ahead of an election next year.

In its legal challenge, Afriforum questioned the legality of a key parliamentary committee report which recommended a change to the constitution to allow land expropriation without compensation.

'The relief sought by the applicants... is dismissed,' said Judge Vincent Saldanha.

Afriforum, which represents mostly white Afrikaners, alleged that the parliamentary committee had illegally appointed an external service provider to compile the report, and also failed to consider more than 100,000 submissions opposing land expropriation without compensation.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...Africans-without-compensation-thrown-out.html

 

[ghosttruck]

This is a huge issue that NEVER gets covered. Having friends in SA I've heard from them the daily dangers of being a white farmer. In many areas they are actively killing white farming families and squatting on the land...corrupt government and ineffective police (and it's near impossible to be licensed to own a firearm) make them an easy target.

That whole situation is very sad.

 

[Sejanus]

A total quagmire.

 

[McDanel]

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, and revenge is one of the reasons why.

 

[JackBurton]

These honkey fucks will have to fight back a different way if their efforts to do so legally are suppressed. Not good for South Africa, a nation hellbent on clinging to similarities to the rest of the trash continent rather than a civilized nation.