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‘Farmers carry burden of apartheid-era dispossessions’

by Jan-Jan Joubert
25th February 2021
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Free State Agriculture president Francois Wilken featured with DA MP Madeleine Hicklin on the steps of Parliament in Cape Town. Photo: Supplied/Food For Mzansi

Free State Agriculture president Francois Wilken featured with DA MP Madeleine Hicklin on the steps of Parliament in Cape Town. Photo: Supplied/Food For Mzansi

Free State Agriculture (FSA) president Francois Wilken has handed in 80 000 signatures against the Expropriation Bill, which will now be tabled in Parliament by the Democratic Alliance (DA).

The signatures and a document setting out Free State Agriculture’s opposition to  the bill, were handed to DA MP Madeleine Hicklin. She serves on the parliamentary portfolio committee on public works, which is processing the bill.

Free State Agriculture president Francois Wilken outside Parliament with some of the 80 000 signatures the agricultural powerhouse handed in against the Expropriation Bill. Photo: Supplied/Food For Mzansi
Free State Agriculture president Francois Wilken outside Parliament with some of the 80 000 signatures the agricultural powerhouse handed in against the Expropriation Bill. Photo: Supplied/Food For Mzansi

Hicklin will now table it in the committee.

FSA represents a membership of about 3 400 commercial farmers in the Free State.

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Its submission joins a growing mass of documents to be taken into account when the bill is finally considered.

Both the DA and the Freedom Front Plus have urged South Africans to add their opposition to the bill before the window for public submissions on its content closes on Sunday.

FSA’s main objections to the bill centre on clause 1. This deals with the strengthening of municipal powers and defines expropriation in the public interest – too widely, in the agricultural group’s opinion.

They also take issue with clause 3, which (by FSA’s interpretation) hands the state de facto control over all property.

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Flowing from these interpretations, FSA lists four primary concerns to the Expropriation Bill.

This is the bill’s impact on land reform, the implications for compensation, the focus on property in general rather than agricultural property in particular, and the impact of expropriation on South Africa as a whole.

Agri SA’s points of concern

Meanwhile Agri SA has also submitted its views on the bill. It is a wide-ranging and empirically researched document making the following main points:

SONA: Christo van der Rheede, the deputy executive director of Agri SA.
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  • Agri SA represents the largest group of rural landowners and wishes to ensure a sustainable, viable sector. 
  • The farmers of today cannot alone be held liable for historic events and cannot be expected to carry the burden of apartheid-era dispossessions. 
  • Agri SA remains firm in its support for free market principles. 
  • Landowners whose land is expropriated should always have the right to approach the courts. 
  • Reference is made to the study on the potential economic impact of zero compensation or minimal compensation, specifically the impact on capital formation, as well as the study on the impact of the pandemic on the agricultural sector. 
  • An international perspective is provided, namely that the constitutions of most countries require that compensation be paid. Reference is made to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation’s study on best practice for compulsory acquisition of property. 
  • The lessons learnt from Zimbabwe and Venezuela are shared to illustrate the disastrous effect that their land policies had on the respective economies. 
  • The implications in terms of potential loss of tax income for the government, as well as the potential negative impact on food security, are also highlighted. 
  • Commentary is provided on specific definitions and clauses, such as the definition of ‘expropriation’ and ‘public interest’ and the zero-compensation clauses. 
  • Agri SA believes strongly that landowners should immediately receive adequate and effective compensation, which will enable them to start again elsewhere, and that they should not be worse off as a result of expropriation.  

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