KwaZulu-Natal ANC leader backs land seizure without compensation
'If we don’t agree on expropriation, we will have to take a view of ensuring that we mobilize for a referendum'
One of the most influential leaders of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress backed a suggestion by President Jacob Zuma that the state be allowed to expropriate land without having to pay for it. The ANC in Kwazulu-Natal, which has the most ANC members of the nine provinces, will be pushing for the sanctioning of land seizures at a party policy conference that begins June 30, said Sihle Zikalala, the party’s regional chairman. “As KwaZulu-Natal, our proposition is expropriation of land with no compensation,” he said in an interview Wednesday in Johannesburg. “If we don’t agree on expropriation, we will have to take a view of ensuring that we mobilize for a referendum.’’ In an address to traditional leaders in Cape Town on March 3, Zuma called for an audit of land ownership, use and occupation patterns prior to the period when European settlers arrived in the country, and once it’s been completed for the law and constitution to be changed to address the issue of land resti...
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