The South African ruling party’s plans on land reform, which include expropriating land without compensation in certain circumstances, will ensure that property rights are safeguarded, its spokesman on the issue said.
Eskom, like other state-owned entities, has provided gravy for the long train of empowerment-linked companies looking for access to big taxpayer-funded contracts.
The South African government has adopted certain populist policies that the country cannot afford, according to FirstRand Chairman Roger Jardine.
Political parties in South Africa share a few distinct features and policy similarities. They might emphasise different aspects of it, based on their manifestos, but they are essentially variants offering more of the same.
The New York Times has reported on the development of the ANC into an organisation that looks a lot like a crime syndicate.
The New York Times is back in South Africa with a shocking article about political violence and the murders of ANC politicians by other ANC politicians.
The top leadership of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress will this weekend discuss an alleged plot to remove its president, Cyril Ramaphosa.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said his administration will pursue plans to redistribute land to the country’s black majority and is still considering whether constitutional amendments are necessary to make it easier to expropriate property without compensation.
The document accuses the ANC leadership of endangering the “noble historic ideological and political positions on the building of united humane societies”.
Support for the ruling ANC was already dwindling under Jacob Zuma, with widespread corruption persuading many to vote for other parties in local elections in 2016.