LETTER: Land expropriation without compensation is Cyril Ramaphosa’s Brexit
Much like Theresa May, he is the implementer of a populist and ill-conceived policy providing no solutions to his country’s real problems, says the DA
Theresa May is likely headed for an embarrassing defeat this week, when her Brexit deal is set to be voted down in parliament. May, who is a reluctant Brexiteer, is stuck between a rock and a hard place, fully knowing that a Brexit deal in whatever form will likely leave the UK worse off than before. Many political analysts have pointed out that billionaire businessman-president Cyril Ramaphosa may similarly be uncomfortable with delivering land expropriation without compensation. The ANC manifesto again notes that expropriation without compensation is a cure for all to speed up land reform. The truth is the ANC’s strategy on land will do nothing to solve the systematic issues in the land reform programme such as chronic underfunding, large-scale corruption and nepotism, lack of capacity and a lack of political will by the failing ANC to address it in the past quarter century. If Ramaphosa is ready to destroy the constitution he helped draft and not take a principled stand to solve ...
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