EFF commander-in-chief Julius Malema now asserts that the state custodianship over all land his party is insisting on will have little impact, so “people will continue to have full rights to their homes and other property” (“EFF threatens to block ‘sell-out amendment’ as expropriation row hots up (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/politics/2021-06-02-eff-threatens-to-block-sell-out-amendment-as-expropriation-row-hots-up/)”, Business Day June 2).

But this is not what Malema stated back in March 2018, when the constitutional review committee was kicking off the process of amending section 25 of the constitution to allow expropriation without compensation and the EFF was pushing hard for state custodianship too...

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