South Africa plans to take land based on race

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Recent developments in South Africa have validated former President Donald Trump’s earlier apprehensions regarding the country’s expropriation legislation, as new proposals emerge aimed at redistributing land based on racial demographics.

The Freedom Front Plus, a conservative political party representing primarily Afrikaans speakers in South Africa’s parliament, has issued a warning about upcoming legislation designed to align land ownership patterns with the country’s predominantly black population.

The party released a statement saying:

> The Department of Land Reform and Rural Development today announced to the relevant parliamentary Portfolio Committee that the so-called Equitable Access to Land Bill will be launched this year.

The objective of the Bill is to bring landownership in line with the country’s demographics using race as basis.

Zimbabwe chased #white #farmers and Zambia gave them #land. Now Zambia is cashing in on their success.

Mugabe changed the breadbasket of Africa into a wasteland. Zambia is fast becoming the breadbasket as South African farmers seize operations daily. https://t.co/trnd3RJKm3 pic.twitter.com/W255PgpEwN

— Dood Normale Ou Pieter Swart (@PietSw) January 5, 2024

According to the schedule, Cabinet is due to discuss the Bill in March already, followed by public submissions in April and May, a review by Nedlac [the National Economic Development and Labour Council] in August and tabling to Parliament in October.

Very few details are available as yet, but the objective is clear: correcting the so-called skewed pattern of land ownership in the near future.

The Expropriation Act, which President Cyril Ramaphosa signed into law earlier this year, is mentioned in the same breath as the proposed Bill as a mechanism whereby government could gain access to land.

The FF Plus wants to encourage everyone with an interest in landownership to be prepared. It seems as if the ANC wants to use this to rise to the MK’s challenge to move as fast as possible.

Ongoing land grab – Klopperpark. For my international followers – it's literally in the title.. 100's of people will rock up and start building shacks in greenbelts and vacant land. In less than an hour, a shack city of thousands can pop up. This is a daily occurrence in SA. 🇿🇦 pic.twitter.com/b3JrWRZiqY

— k9_reaper | T.I.A (@k9_reaper) June 8, 2024

Neither the Department nor the Portfolio Committee has tried to hide the fact that this Bill is aimed at white landownership.

They view it as a part of the freedom struggle which was not fully carried out in 1994. In other words, they decided to unilaterally breach the initial agreement in yet another way.

The MK party, led by former President Jacob Zuma, represents an extreme political faction. The mentioned 1994 date marks South Africa’s historic transition from apartheid rule to democratic governance.

This development follows Trump’s recent executive action that halted aid to South Africa and offered asylum to Afrikaner farmers, specifically citing the Expropriation Act. Critics have suggested this legislation could potentially enable government-sanctioned land seizures similar to those witnessed in Zimbabwe.