AgriSA is angry about Constitution change for land reform, saying it will discourage investment
The agricultural industry body also says the populist move may be ‘good electioneering but doesn’t make more black farmers’
The ANC amending the Constitution to expropriate land without compensation is a populist move that will discourage investment in the agricultural sector and devastate the economy, agricultural industry body AgriSA said on Wednesday. President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on national television on Tuesday that the ANC had decided to change the Constitution to expropriate land without compensation. This is despite Parliament’s constitutional review committee still holding public hearings across the country on the matter, and due to report back in September. "We are currently in a consultation process where South Africans are participating in a process of review — we have actually taken the time to participate in this process — and this announcement by the governing party serves only to undermine the process under way," said AgriSA president Dan Kriek. "SA needs more black farmers and black farms. Constitutional amendments — and even worst-case expropriation without compensation — may mak...
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