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8 June 2021 - Dr Frans Cronje, chief executive of the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) notes: ‘It was alarming to see the extent to which fallacious nonsense came to define public policy debates such as that “white privilege” and “white monopoly capital” explained black poverty when, as just one example, South Africa was recording some of the worst school-level literacy and numeracy rates of any emerging market.’
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Anthea Jeffrey questions why President Cyril Ramaphosa tried to distance his party from the EFF view on state custodianship when his ANC colleagues put forward two clauses on the issue which aren t very different from EFF proposals.
President Cyril Ramaphosa was in full but unconvincing reassurance mode at a media briefing last Thursday. The president told journalists the ANC differs from the EFF and does not want the pending constitutional amendment bill (the expropriation without compensation – EWC bill) to include state custodianship of all land.
Yet, just three days before the president tried to distance his party from the custodianship idea, his ANC colleagues on the ad hoc committee responsible for drafting the EWC bill put forward two clauses on state custodianship that differ very little from those suggested by the EFF.
3 June 2021 - Seven years ago, back in 2014, the IRR warned that the ANC would seek to nationalise all the country’s land without compensation. It would do so by taking ‘custodianship’ of land and then claiming that no expropriation had occurred (as explained below) and so no compensation need be paid.