SA: Private Property Rights to End in July 2008 in South Africa

[This is probably one of the most serious, if not the most serious issue of all. In the transition from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe PROPERTY RIGHTS was the biggest fight of all. In South Africa it was also a HUGE ISSUE. Now, finally, we have SHEER COMMUNISM.

This does not mean the ANC will take your house. They have slipped this in the back door for FUTURE USE. One day, this will give them the same powers as Mugabe to come and seize your house. Spread this around. This, folks, is 100% Bolshevik communism - gunning for the landowners.

The original is in Afrikaans and I did check it. But, if someone can please translate that and post it in the comments section I'd be most grateful. See the link. Jan]

SA: Private Property Rights to End in July 2008 in South Africa
Date Posted: Wednesday 16-Apr-2008

March 30 2008.

Rapport newspaper writes today that from July 2008, all SA private property can be expropriated (verb (of the state) take (property) from its owner for public use or benefit) by ANC-regime after July 2008, when the new Expropriations Act goes into effect.

Any private property - not only land used for agriculture -- can be appropriated by the South African state's ministry of public works. Effectively, this marks the end of capitalist-style private property rights in South Africa. And all private-property owners will just have to accept any price offered to them by the government under this new law unless they are willing to engage in expensive law-suits to get the market-related price for their properties.

Effectively, this new law thus ends all private-ownership rights in South Africa. It includes ALL properties countrywide: if the ministry of internal affairs wants land for housing 'previously disadvantaged residents, they can and undoubtedly will expropriate land owned by churches, banks, individual home-owners or commercial businesses.

Already the country has no agricultural land left in the legal sense since all agricultural land now falls under the jurisdiction of municipal boundaries countrywide. In 1994 when SA still exported agricultural products on a massive scale, it had 85,000 farmers using less than 7% of the total land surface. At the moment, less than 10,000 commercial farmers remain, raising crops on less than 0.75% of the total land surface. The country is now facing serious food shortages for the first time in its entire recorded agricultural history since the mid-1600's.

Afrikaans newspaper report about new Expropriations Act see the link below:
Source URL: http://www.news24.com/Rapport/Nuus/0,,752-795_2296578,00.html