South African President Calls For White- Owned Land Confiscation Without Compensation 

Following closely on the heels of its neighbour Zimbabwe, South Africa may take to confiscating white-owned land without compensation. South African President Jacob Zuma, called for an altering of law to facilitate the confiscation of land owned by Caucasians in the country.

Calling particularly the black parties in parliament to unite in pursuit of the amendment of the constitution to this order, Zuma said that the move would be preceded by a “pre-colonial land audit of land use and occupation patterns”.

His proposal was backed by Julius Malema, leader of the radical Economic Freedom Fighter, who The Telegraph reports has been travelling across South Africa propagating the expropriation of white owned land without compensation. “People of South Africa, where you see a beautiful land, take it, it belongs to you,” he said in support of the proposal, adding that the move will “unite black people in South Africa.”

The proposal caused outrage among the Afrikaans speaking groups. Andries Breytenbach, chairman of the Boer Afrikaner Volksraad,responding to the Zuma’s remarks said, “If this starts, it will turn into a racial war which we want to prevent,” calling for urgent mediation between the Afrikaans and the government.