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Onteieningswetsontwerp – Drogredenasies in wetsontwerp verdoesel onteiening sonder vergoeding
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Onteieningswetsontwerp – Drogredenasies in wetsontwerp verdoesel onteiening sonder vergoeding
- ANC se politieke oorlewing voorop gestel
- Neem standpunt in teen onteiening en dien kommentaar in
Die Afrikanerbond is op rekord en ons wil dit weer onomwonde stel dat enige proses wat ʼn eensydige verandering in eiendomsreg voorstaan, nie aanvaar kan word nie.
Die Nasionale Raad van Provinsies se Gekose Komitee oor Vervoer, Staatsdiens en Administrasie, Openbare Werke en Infrastruktuur het uitnodigings gerig om kommentaar in te dien op die Onteieningswetsontwerp [B23B – 2020] Sien onder vir die skakel na die Wetsontwerp. Die oogmerk van die wet volgens die Komitee se uitnodiging is soos volg:
“Die wetsontwerp het ten doel om voorsiening te maak vir die onteiening van eiendom vir 'n openbare doel of in die openbare belang; om die prosedure vir die onteiening van eiendom vir 'n openbare doel of in die openbare belang te reguleer, met inbegrip van die betaling van vergoeding; om sekere gevalle te identifiseer waar die voorsiening van geen vergoeding regverdig en billik kan wees vir onteiening in die openbare belang; om die Onteieningswet, 1975 (Wet No 63 van 1975) te herroep; en om voorsiening te maak vir aangeleenthede wat daarmee verband hou.”
Die Afrikanerbond doen ʼn beroep op belanghebbendes en belangstellende persone, instansies en organisasies om kommentaar in te dien. Die sluitingsdatum vir die aanvaarding van skriftelike voorleggings is Maandag 6 Maart 2023. Kommentaar kan ingedien word by die Gekose Komitee oor Vervoer, Staatsdiens en Administrasie, Openbare Werke en Infrastruktuur
Die wetsontwerp kan afgelaai word by:
Die grondwetlikheid van die wetsontwerp moet opnuut bevraagteken word en dit is op die stadium onvermydelik dat die ondeurdagte kwessie deur litigasie verder geneem sal word. Alle bestaande metodes en moontlikhede is nie naasteby ontgin nie. Die ontneming en onteiening van eiendom word nou slegs ʼn simbool vir politieke doeleindes.
Daar moet geen twyfel by enige belanghebbende wees dat die ANC die kwessie van grond en eiendomsreg as ʼn verkiesingspeelbal gebruik en aangewend gaan word nie. Die ANC regering kan nie meer vertrou word met grond, eiendomsreg of selfs prosesse tot grondhervorming nie. Daarvoor is die bal te veel keer laat val en verbrou deur ʼn onbevoegde en onbekwame regering en onbeholpe beleidsimplementering met grootskaalse korrupsie.
Om in ʼn aanloop tot ʼn verkiesing en in ʼn klimaat van ʼn hoogs aanvegbare ramptoestand sonder enige regulasies, onteieningswetgewing deur te voer skep polarisasie en verdere wrywing. In die wetsontwerp se eie bewoording is die oogmerk om “sekere gevalle te identifiseer waar die voorsiening van geen (nul) vergoeding regverdig en billik kan wees vir onteiening in die openbare belang.” Dit is reeds uiters omstrede en onaanvaarbaar. Deur enigsins met ʼn onteieningsproses te begin veral as die ‘openbare belang’ ideologies geïnterpreteer gaan word, is nie net kommerwekkend nie en hoe ook al verdoesel en deur watter drogredenasies geregverdig is ʼn eensydige verbreking van die 1994 nasionale akkoord en ʼn ondermyning van die 1996 grondwet.
Een van die hoekstene van die Universele Verklaring van Menseregte
handel oor eiendomsregte soos vervat in artikel 17:
1. Elkeen het die reg om individueel en in assosiasie met ander eiendom te besit.
2. Niemand se eiendom sal arbitrêr afgeneem word nie
Die Afrikanerbond sal wel formele kommentaar indien, maar ook is reeds betrokke saam met ander instellings in die burgerlike samelewing om die kwessie deeglik te oorweeg. Eiendomsreg soos gewaarborg in die Universele Verklaring van Menseregte is nie ʼn kwessie wat in die ANC se faksiegevegte tuishoort nie en nog minder as partpolitieke kwessie as ʼn verkiesingspeelbal gebruik kan word. Die konsepwetgewing gee aan die ANC-regering die ruimte om arbitrêr grond te onteien en dit kan verdere enorme implikasies inhou vir sake en beleggersvertroue.
15 Februarie 2023
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Expropriation Bill – Property rights again under threat –
- ANC’s survival depend on land question
- Call upon role-players and interested parties to comment
The Afrikanerbond is on record and we wish to state unequivocally yet again that any process advocating a unilateral change in property rights cannot be accepted.
The National Council of Provinces’ Select Committee on Transport, Public Service and Administration, Public Works and Infrastructure issued invitations to submit comments on the Expropriation Bill [B23B – 2020]. See below for the link to the Bill. The purpose of the law, according to the Committee's invitation, is as follows:
“The Bill seeks to provide for the expropriation of property for a public purpose or in the public interest; to regulate the procedure for the expropriation of property for a public purpose or in the public interest, including payment of compensation; to identify certain instances where the provision of nil compensation may be just and equitable for expropriation in the public interest; to repeal the Expropriation Act, 1975 (Act No. 63 of 1975); and to provide for matters connected therewith."
The Afrikanerbond appeals to stakeholders and interested persons, institutions and organisations to submit comments. The closing date for the acceptance of written submissions is Monday, 6 March 2023. Comments can be submitted to the Select Committee on Transport, Public Service and Administration, Public Works and Infrastructure at expropriationcomments@parliament.gov.za
The bill can be downloaded from
The constitutionality of the bill must be questioned anew, and it is inevitable at this stage that the ill-considered issue will be taken further through litigation. Few of the many existing methods and possibilities have been exploited so far.
First and foremost, the ANC government has proven that it cannot be trusted with land, property rights or even land reform processes. The ball has been dropped too many times and the process botched by an incompetent and inept government and clumsy policy implementation characterised by large-scale corruption.
Furthermore, it has become increasingly clear that the deprivation and expropriation of property is a mere symbol for political purposes. There should be no doubt in the minds of any interested parties that the ANC will be using and exploiting the issue of land and property rights as an election ploy.
To pass expropriation legislation in the run-up to an election and in a climate of a highly contestable state of disaster without any regulations creates polarisation and further friction. To quote from the bill itself, its aim is to identify certain instances where the provision of nil compensation may be just and equitable for expropriation in the public interest. This is already extremely controversial and unacceptable. Starting an expropriation process at all, especially if the 'public interest' is to be interpreted ideologically, is not only worrisome; however well disguised and justified by false reasoning, it is, moreover, a unilateral breach of the 1994 national accord and undermines the 1996 constitution.
One of the cornerstones of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights deals with property rights as contained in Article 17:
"(1) Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.”
The Afrikanerbond will indeed submit formal comments but is also already involved, together with other civil society institutions, in further considering the issue thoroughly. The country cannot allow the ANC to use the issue of property rights, as guaranteed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as either a weapon in its factional in-fighting or a party-political election ploy. The draft legislation gives the ANC government the space to arbitrarily expropriate land, and this has enormous implications for business and investor confidence.
15 February 2023
