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You have no right to own land if you’re black and rural

Christi van der Westhuizen by Christi van der Westhuizen 9 April 201315 April 2013

Powerful lobby groups regularly sound alarm bells when the torpid rate of land reform fleetingly raises the possibility of land expropriation and, with it, the spectre of the violation of white farmers’ property rights. In reality, it is black, rural, poor South Africans who are already being deprived of the right to own property, even […]

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A parliament that doesn’t respect itself

Christi van der Westhuizen by Christi van der Westhuizen 18 July 201227 July 2012

Dr Mathole Motshekga, ANC chief whip, at the end of June wrote in ANC Today that, “parliament survives on the confidence and respect the public have in it, without (which) its dignity and integrity is eroded”. The context was Cope leader Mosiuoa Lekota sticking to his guns that President Jacob Zuma had violated his oath […]

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