The organisation believes Parliament's nationwide public consultation process on the contentious topic was a sham.
The Institute for Race Relations team, led by head of strategic operations Sihle Ngobese, popularly known as Big Daddy Liberty, addressed journalists at the Union Buildings in Pretoria. Photo: Jonisayi Maromo / ANA
The Institute of Race Relations was at the Union Buildings in Pretoria on Wednesday, delivering boxes containing names of nearly 160,000 South Africans who are opposed to the much-punted expropriation of land without compensation. “Why? People understand what it means. It means essentially giving politicians the power to confiscate property, to confiscate goods from us. When we talk about property, it’s not just land. EWC and other policy proposals will be giving politicians to confiscate those goods from ordinary, hardworking people like you and me, essentially, without compensation.”
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