{"id":252687,"date":"2018-10-19T14:23:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T18:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=252687"},"modified":"2021-04-23T08:36:46","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T12:36:46","slug":"south-african-city-to-begin-confiscating-land-from-white-citizens-in-national-test-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ru\/south-african-city-to-begin-confiscating-land-from-white-citizens-in-national-test-case\/","title":{"rendered":"South African city to begin confiscating land from white citizens in national test case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Great! All African nations should do the same and not only with farms but also mines, oil, and all foreign-held companies.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Local authorities in the South African city of Ekurhuleni are set to begin expropriating privately owned land, without paying for it, as part of a national test case for the country\u2019s controversial land reform program.<\/p>\n<p>The city council approved an \u201cexpropriation without compensation\u201d bill that had been pushed by ruling African National Congress (ANC) earlier this year, the Associated Press reports.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 600,000 of the four million people living in the city are reportedly stuck in an awful housing crisis due to the shortage of lands for building new homes. The land crunch is forcing people to stay in \u201cinformal settlements.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur policy is not to take the land by force,\u201d Ekurhuleni\u2019s Executive Mayor Mzwandile Masina told the agency. \u201cOur policy is to make sure the land is shared amongst those that need it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Masina, who heads the local ANC-led coalition, said that the city council would expropriate nearly 350 hectares of vacant land in the city limits, both private and government-owned. The city authorities are reportedly seeking to develop the lands in order to create new accommodation areas for people living in ramshackle dwellings. The top official did not specify which landowners will be hit by the measure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not going to expropriate land and keep it for ourselves,\u201d the mayor said, stressing that people are currently having to live in conditions that are \u201chorrible for human beings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The internationally debated land reform was approved by South Africa\u2019s ruling party to address the historic injustices of apartheid, and distribute land among the population more equitably. According to the country\u2019s President Cyril Ramaphosa, over 77 percent of South African farms and agricultural holdings are owned by white citizens with only four percent of lands belonging to black South Africans. White citizens make up just nine percent of the country\u2019s population, while black citizens account for 76 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Masina expects affected landowners to take the municipal authorities to court. However, the Ekurhuleni municipality hopes the case will force a ruling on whether expropriating land in the public interest is legal as the nation\u2019s laws stand, or whether the constitution needs to be amended.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/business\/441725-south-african-test-land-takeover\/?fbclid=IwAR1uTVXPPwa6j1nuVttQDzDclWcE1WYd3m8cRuq93xXyvatdxANkDadckpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/business\/441725-south-african-test-land-takeover\/?fbclid=IwAR1uTVXPPwa6j1nuVttQDzDclWcE1WYd3m8cRuq93xXyvatdxANkDadckpg<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: Great! All African nations should do the same and not only with farms but also mines, oil, and all foreign-held companies. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":328919,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}