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AfriForum ready to take legal action to protect property owners if targeted by GNU with expropriation without compensation

The civil rights organisation AfriForum has made it clear to the government that the organisation will launch substantial legal action to protect private property rights in the event that the government targets property for expropriation without compensation. This comes after President Cyril Ramaphosa signed the Expropriation Bill into law today, which makes expropriation of private property without compensation possible.

With the signing of this Bill into law, the Government of National Unity (GNU) has sanctioned a substantial threat to the right to private property in this country. Just as with the threat to Afrikaans education by the BELA Act, any law which seeks to dismantle private property is a red line for AfriForum. The organisation intends to treat it as such.

According to Ernst van Zyl, Head of Public Relations at AfriForum, the GNU has declared war on private property owners with the signing of this Bill into law. “AfriForum will do everything in its power to protect citizens against expropriation without compensation. We seem to be the last real lines of defence left,” adds Van Zyl.

“The promulgation of the BELA Act, and now the signing of the Expropriation Bill, indicates that the ANC is effectively trying to use the GNU to coopt the former opposition parties to help the ANC carry out every one of its destructive policies,” concludes Van Zyl.

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