by AfriForum | Oct 27, 2020 | Media statements, Expropriation Media statements
Representatives of the civil rights organisation AfriForum attended the public hearing on amendments to Schedule 25 of the Constitution in Concordia on 25 October. James Stone, AfriForum’s vice-chairman of the Springbok-branch, spoke at the hearing. AfriForum...
by AfriForum | Oct 15, 2020 | Media statements, Expropriation Media statements
The civil rights organisation AfriForum has described the economic growth plan announced by Pres Cyril Ramaphosa today as economically naive and utopian. Ernst Roets, head of policy and action at AfriForum, said the basic building blocks that have to be put in place...
by AfriForum | Oct 14, 2020 | Media statements, Expropriation Media statements
AfriForum’s application to act as friend of the court in the court application brought in the Western Cape High Court by the Human Rights Commission (HRC), the EFF and other applicants to have certain common-law remedies against land occupiers declared invalid, will...
by AfriForum | Oct 2, 2020 | Media statements, Expropriation Media statements
AfriForum is of the opinion that the government’s admission that almost 900 farms – which belong to the state and extend over some 700 000 hectares – are underused or not used at all is once again confirmation that government’s more radical land reform in the form of...
by AfriForum | Sep 29, 2020 | Media statements, Expropriation Media statements
The civil rights organisation AfriForum on 28 September 2020 applied to act as amicus curiae (friend of the court) before the Western Cape High Court to argue against the application by the Human Rights Commission (HRC), the EFF and other applicants to have certain...
by AfriForum | Sep 16, 2020 | Media statements, Expropriation Media statements
AfriForum’s court application against the parliamentary constitutional review committee on the process followed to look into a possible amendment of the Constitution, opening the door to expropriation without compensation, was heard in the Western Cape High Court...