LETTER: ANC forgets that property is tied to liberty
Expropriation without compensation poses threat to basic values
02 February 2020 - 19:26
British philosopher John Locke wrote that “security of one’s property is intimately linked to one’s freedom”. US president John Adams said: “Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist.” Another American founding father, Alexander Hamilton, wrote: “Adieu to the security of property, adieu to security of liberty.”
The ANC strove for liberty and attained it in 1994, but now it misses the contradiction — the threat it poses to our liberty (and theirs) by its assault on the security of property in its proposals for expropriation without compensation. Typically thoughtless and confused...
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