MICHAEL MORRIS: Amendment deprives the rural poor of property rights
People living on communal property associations land are unable to lease or sell their own property without consent from the government
09 December 2024 - 05:00
How much less constitutional freedom should black people living in the countryside have than, say, Gwede Mantashe or Johann Rupert or any of the rest of us who live in towns and cities, just as we please?
If this seems a staggering question, more astonishing by far is that shockingly little in the way of any questions have been raised over a law not even two months old that robs the ordinary freedoms of an estimated 470,000 black South Africans — the supposed beneficiaries of post-1994 measures intended as compensation where people were forcibly removed from agricultural land by the apartheid state...
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