Since the Constitution’s public participation conditions have not been met, and since no compliant SEIA has been produced, we urge the Committee to refer the Bill back to the Department.
Human Rights Day was 21 March, last Sunday, and remembers the events of the Sharpeville massacre, in 1960. On that day, 69 people died and 180 were wounded when police fired on a crowd that had gathered in protest against the pass laws. The enactment of the Constitution during the 1990s was a promise that South Africa would never return to authoritarianism of this nature. The lockdown of the past year has represented an unacceptable relapse.
In celebration of Human Rights Day, the partnership between the Stellenbosch Municipality and the Free Market Foundation’s (FMF) Khaya Lam (My Home) Land Reform Project, and sponsored by Dr Johann Rupert and his wife Gaynor, presented another 50 fully tradeable title deeds to new homeowners in the Mooiwater community, in Franschhoek, Western Cape.
Greater economic freedom and opportunity leads to greater prosperity, leading to greater gender equality followed by even higher levels of economic prosperity. It’s capitalism’s benevolent circle, the opposite of a vicious circle.
On 18 March 2021, FMF’s President Leon Louw, made an additional submission to the Portfolio Committee on Public Works and Infrastructure on the Expropriation Bill, 2020
