South Africa's High Court rejected a legal challenge today brought by a group representing white farmers against President Cyril Ramaphosa's plans for land expropriation without compensation. In its legal challenge, Afriforum questioned the legality of a key parliamentary committee report which recommended a change to the constitution to allow land expropriation without compensation. Afriforum, which represents mostly white Afrikaners, alleged that the parliamentary committee had illegally appointed an external service provider to compile the report, and also failed to consider more than 100,000 submissions opposing land expropriation without compensation. Cyril Ramaphosa has made land redistribution from white farmers to black disadvantaged citizens a flagship policyThis process is unlikely to be completed before a parliamentary election expected to be held in May. Nearly a quarter of a century after the end of white-minority rule, white South Africans comprise just eight per cent of the population but still hold most of the individually owned private land.

Source: Daily Mail November 30, 2018 11:37 UTC