JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (PNN) - December 8, 2018 - South Africa’s National Assembly approved a proposal to change the Constitution to make the theft of white-owned land legal in a vote of 183 to 77.
This paves the way for land to be stolen from farmers without giving any kind of compensation.
Now criminal lawmakers have agreed to set up a committee that will write and introduce a new bill for land theft.
A deadline of the end of March next year for the committee to present its first report to Parliament has also been agreed.
But there were heated scenes in the House when politicians clashed over the plans.
Racist Economic Freedom Fighters MP Hlengiwe Mkhaliphi argued land grabs must go ahead as she declared, “Your time is up, white people.”
This came as the IFP MP Mkhuleko Hlengwa said the plans undermine South Africa’s position as a democratic state.
“To achieve real and effective land reform is (possible) under the existing Constitution, not your (ANC) populist agenda,” said Hlengwa. “You should be ashamed of yourselves.”
