"Give land or see it taken by force"

The GOVERNMENT should expropriate land without compensation, or watch people take it by force. This warning was issued at the third stage of the parliamentary public hearings on the proposed amendment to Article 25 of the constitution in Pretoria.

The audience took place on Saturday in a packed house of Thaba Tshwane

In no time, the panel was seen obliged to recall the public when black participants opposed to it. expropriation without compensation were called traitors.

Some whites declared that they were not farmers, but businessmen and landowners, and expressed their opinions on the basis of research on the economy and their possible consequences.

Supreme Chief Larry Varrie of the Council of Large Indigenous Communities People were the first occupants of the land and deserved the visit of President Cyril Ramaphosa, as he did with Zulu king Goodwill Zwelithini.

"The limitation of land ownership of 1913 should be completely abolished as it maintains and justifies crimes, atrocities and" We are the owners of the land and the government has no right to touch land without consult us. "

Letta Chabangu was booed for advising the panel to tell Parliament not to amend the constitution and said that section 25 already allowed land grabbing and redistribution, but the government failed because the officials were lazy to do their job.

"I have my grandfather's property title 78 years ago." It was said to claim our land at Age 36. Today, I'm 60, but nothing has been done by the authorities. "

The settlers took the land and now the government wanted do the same thing.

Mamelodi Extension President Andrew Raboroko stated that he wanted the government to expropriate the land and that he be the only guardian to distribute it as well.

Peter Rantsi told the panel that Parliament had to expropriate the land.

Black South Africans, he says, were not consulted when their lands were taken, but they were now ready to take them back.

Willem Pistorius said that the constitutional amendment was not necessary. History has shown that South Africans were able to talk to each other to find peace, as they did with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, he said. "We, farmers, recognize what happened in the past, we know that for us, white farmers, the land is a commodity while many of our black colleagues see the land as a way of life."

MoAfrika Mabogwana, President of Tshwane EFF said, "Whites killed blacks and committed black genocide, which is why we say the land was stolen."

"Article 25 must be removed and replaced by a land expropriation without compensation for equal redistribution. "

The expropriation of land without compensation would also release white women who did not have significant land, he said., Adele du Toit declared that it opposed the expropriation of land without compensation, because unemployment was already high and thousands of jobs would be lost in the agricultural sector.More than 90% farms already expropriated p ar the state have failed, she said.

"About 3.3 million young people did not have any employment, education or training in the first quarter of this year." She said agriculture hired these young people "Unqualified and untrained", but if land expropriation continued, unemployment would only increase.