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Nuwe voorstelle op grondwetwysiging is gekkigheid
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Grondwet wysigings – Artikel 25
Het die ANC enigsins ʼn begrip van demokrasie en het hulle nog beheer oor prosesse? – Die groter gevaar is die nuwe rasfokus
Ons het kennis geneem van radikale veranderinge aan ʼn reeds onaanvaarbare 18e wysigingswetsontwerp om Art 25 van die grondwet te verander ten einde onteiening sonder vergoeding moontlik te maak.
Dit is ʼn absolute en finale bevestiging van die ANC se wanhopige desperaatheid om die proses deurgevoer te kry. Die interne spanninge en wrywing tussen faksies is reeds onomkeerbaar. Onteiening sonder vergoeding en die wysiging van die grondwet om dit moontlik te maak het sy direkte oorsprong in die ANC se faksiegevegte en Die oppervlakkige versekeringe wat President Ramaphosa aanvanklik gegee het “dat die ekonomie nie geskaad moet word nie”, is ook nou nie meer ‘n oorweging nie. Die realiteit is dat die ekonomie steeds steier onder tekortkominge en beleidsonsekerhede.
‘n Afrika gesegde lui dat “as die olifante beklei kry die gras seer.” In die geval is dit ongelukkig die grondwet en demokratiese parlementere prosesse wat ly onder ʼn ANC wat beheer verloor het.
Om die datum van 1913 terug te skuif na 1 Januarie 1800 en om gemeenskaplike gronde wat tradisionele gemeenskappe uit te sluit dui ongelukkig aan dat die ANC nou na die pype van die EFF gedans het. Onteiening van grond word gevolglik ʼn proses waarin ras die kriteria gaan word vir onteiening. Die ANC het die marionette geword van die EFF marionetmeester.
Te midde van verslegtende ekonomiese omstandighede, armoede en werkloosheidsyfers, volhard die ANC regering in sy najaag van skadelike en gevaarlike beleid wat geen oplossings bied vir die sosio-ekonomiese kwessies wat Suid-Afrika in die gesig staar nie. Inteendeel, beleide soos onteiening sonder vergoeding ondermyn fundamentele ekonomiese beginsels en is ʼn enorme bedreiging vir ekonomiese en meegaande sosiale vooruitgang.
Dit is die regering se primêre verantwoordelikheid om orde, stabiliteit en veiligheid aan die land se inwoners te voorsien, en ook om 'n klimaat te skep waarbinne beleggers veilig voel om hul kapitaal te belê. In beide hierdie opsigte faal die ANC-regering Suid-Afrika heeltemal. Die staat word al meer disfunksioneel met infrastruktuur en dienslewering wat in duie stort. Dit is in die toksiese omgewing wat die ANC geskep het waarbinne Suid-Afrikaners worstel om te oorleef.
Staatskaping, korrupsie en gebrekkige dienslewering dra alles by tot die persepsie dat die regering nie ernstig is oor ʼn suksesvolle en volhoubare ekonomiese model nie. Onteiening sonder vergoeding met die gepaardgaande raskriteria wat nou ingesluit word bring Suid-Afrika ongelukkig nader aan mislukking.
Die beskerming van eiendomsreg is die enigste volhoubare metode waarop geleenthede vir almal in die land geskep kan word. Die ontneming van die reg is internasionaal onaanvaarbaar en druis absoluut in teen alles wat hierdie grondwetlike bedeling moes bereik.
Hierdie voorstelle is blote ongrondwetlike gekkigheid, maar vervreem die regering hom al meer van gematigde Suid-Afrikaners, wat die kern van die burgery in Suid-Afrika is.
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Constitutional changes – Section 25
Does the ANC have any understanding of democracy and do they have control over processes? - The more pressing danger is the new racial focus
We have taken note of radical changes to an already unacceptable 18th Amendment Bill to amend Section 25 of the Constitution in order to allow expropriation without compensation.
This is absolute and final confirmation of the ANC's frantic desperation to complete the process. Factions are already characterised by irreversable internal tensions and friction. Expropriation without compensation, and the amendment of the Constitution to make this possible, have their direct origins in the ANC's factional fighting. The superficial assurances that President Ramaphosa initially gave "that the economy should not be harmed" are no longer a consideration either. The reality is that the economy has long been plagued by shortcomings and policy uncertainties.
An African saying goes, "When elephants do battle, it is the grass that suffers." In this case, it is unfortunately the Constitution and democratic parliamentary processes that are suffering under an ANC that has lost control.
Moving the date of 1913 back to 1 January 1800 and excluding the communal land of traditional communities unfortunately indicates that the ANC is now dancing to the EFF’s tune. Land expropriation consequently becomes a process in which race will become the criterion for expropriation. The ANC are now the puppets, with the EFF as puppet master.
Amid deteriorating economic conditions, increasing poverty and rapidly rising unemployment figures, the ANC government persists in its pursuit of harmful and dangerous policies that offer no solutions to the socio-economic issues facing South Africa. On the contrary, policies such as expropriation without compensation are further undermining fundamental economic principles and pose an enormous threat to economic and accompanying social progress.
It is the government's primary responsibility to ensure order, stability and security for the country's inhabitants, and to create a climate in which investors feel safe to invest their capital. In both these respects the ANC government is dismally failing South Africa. The state is becoming increasingly dysfunctional, with infrastructure and service delivery collapsing. It is in this toxic environment which the ANC has created that South Africans must struggle to survive.
State capture, corruption and poor service delivery all contribute to the perception that the government is not serious about a successful and sustainable economic model. Expropriation without compensation, with the accompanying race criteria that are now being included, unfortunately brings South Africa closer to failure.
The protection of property rights is the only sustainable method by which opportunities can be created for everyone in the country. The deprivation of this right is internationally unacceptable and runs counter to everything that our constitutional dispensation was expected to achieve. These proposals are pure unconstitutional madness. They are further alienating the government from moderate South Africans, who form the core of the citizenry in South Africa.
