TRANSFORMATION
Lindiwe Zulu calls for constitutional change to enable land seizures
The ANC does not have the required numbers to change the Constitution, but the opposition EFF has promised votes to change land provisions
SA must change the Constitution to allow seizure of land for redistribution to black people without compensation because the country’s laws are hindering the transformation of the economy, Small Business Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu says. President Jacob Zuma had "decided enough is enough" and the governing ANC would now accelerate distributing the nation’s wealth more equally between the black majority and the more affluent white minority, Zulu said in an interview at the World Economic Forum on Africa in Durban on Wednesday. The ANC does not have the required numbers to change the Constitution, but the opposition EFF, led by Julius Malema, had promised the ANC all its votes to change the provisions on land. "There’s nothing wrong with changing the Constitution where it’s not helping you — where we need to change it, we will change it," she said. "Our people are not going to forgive us if we prolong this thing. Radical economic transformation — what does that mean? Ownership o...
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