“We cannot get our food out of our ports” – Dr Theo de Jager on Transnet
South African farmers are pleading for intervention as products destined for export are rotting at ports besieged by Transnet incompetence and a continuing wage dispute.
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“Action to help kill this Bill is vital” – Just one day left, says Anthea Jeffery
“The deadline for comment on the Bill is 13th August. This means that SA’s have only one day left to help kill the Bill,” writes the IRR’s Jeffery.
EWC enshrines theft on a national basis; it can’t be allowed – Bernard Tuffin
Bernard Tuffin of Family Action South Africa explains why the terms ‘EWC’ and ‘custodianship’ should have us all shaking in our boots.
“If ANC has any regard for SA and its people, it should withdraw all NDR policies” – Anthea Jeffery
“The ANC has claimed that the Bill will help ‘return’ land to ‘the people’. [But] land expropriated will be controlled by govt, not individual black SA’s.”
ANC drawing back from EWC plans? Anthea Jeffery dives in
“ANC determination to expand state ownership – as a crucial element in its socialist-orientated National Democratic Revolution – continues apace.”
A strategy to stand up against EWC – Frans Cronjé
Frans Cronjé sets out a five part plan which he believes the agricultural sector should follow to counter the risk of expropriation without compensation but warns “don’t look to foreign governments.”
🔒 GGA’s Alain Tschudin: Providing context on SA’s major flashpoints – history helps with solutions to crumbling municipalities, EWC
In this interview Alain Tschudin addresses South Africa’s two big flashpoints – the destruction of rural municipalities and the ANC’s policy of land Expropriation Without Compensation.
EWC: a self-inflicted hindrance to South Africa’s investment ambitions – IRR
There is an enormous well of goodwill, and a great deal of interest in South Africa and the opportunities it offers – but great concerns about the path it is taking, according the Institute Race of Relations.
Putting property rights at the heart of land reform solutions – IRR
Property rights are not a hindrance to land reform, but part of the solution. This is the main thrust of an address to influential German opinion makers in Berlin today by Terence Corrigan.
ANC dismisses notion of early national election
The African National Congress has dismissed the notion of bringing forward national elections that are scheduled to take place around the middle of next year, according to Ace Magashule, the party’s secretary-general.