Land appropriation resolution hits parliament today
The ANC was by Monday afternoon still unclear over whether it would support the EFF’s motion
The “new” ANC will face its first big test in parliament on Tuesday when it will be confronted with an EFF motion to change the constitution to allow land grabs. Despite the party resolving at its December conference that land should be expropriated without compensation, the ANC was by Monday afternoon still unclear over whether it would support the EFF’s motion.Deputy ANC chief whip Doris Dlakude was non-committal on her party’s stance on the motion brought by the EFF last last week. “We will deal with the motion, according to our own conference resolution,” Dlakude told Times Select. She said if the motion “speaks to what we resolved as the ANC in conference, we will support it”, but if they didn’t agree with the motion, her party would amend the motion. President Cyril Ramaphosa has said the ANC would be guided by its conference resolution on land expropriation – but added it “should be implemented in a way that increases agricultural production, improves food security”. The EFF...
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