{"id":150763,"date":"2017-01-16T13:51:53","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T11:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=150763"},"modified":"2017-01-16T13:51:53","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T11:51:53","slug":"anc-mulls-use-it-or-lose-it-land-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/150763\/anc-mulls-use-it-or-lose-it-land-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"ANC mulls &#8220;use it or lose it&#8221; land policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KwaZulu-Natal Premier Sihle Zikalala has confirmed that the ANC was currently considering\u00a0new land expropriation regulations with a\u00a0&#8220;use it or lose it&#8221; policy, reports <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/new-use-it-or-lose-it-land-policy-in-pipeline-zikalala-20170115\" target=\"_blank\">News24<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at\u00a0party\u2019s 105th anniversary celebrations in\u00a0KwaDukuza, Zikalala stated the distribution of land would be a key talking point a the ANC&#8217;s upcoming conference in February, with the party&#8217;s leaders having to take a &#8220;bold and decisive&#8221; stance on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you get back the land and you don\u2019t use it, you need to let it go so it can be given to people that will know how to use it to improve their lives and those of the communities,&#8221; said\u00a0Zikalala<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Land expropriation will be done lawfully, we are not going to take back the land forcefully as it was done before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The event also saw a surprise appearance by President Jacob Zuma who had elected to not travel with the country&#8217;s other top leaders to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>He took the opportunity to throw his support behind the ANC&#8217;s current KZN leadership and \u00a0reiterated the importance of economic development and the issue of land.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/143172\/take-any-white-land-you-want-malema\/\" target=\"_blank\">Take any white land you want: Malema<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KwaZulu-Natal Premier Sihle Zikalala has confirmed that the ANC was currently considering new land expropriation regulations with a &#8220;use it or lose it&#8221; policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":86192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-150763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150763"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150781,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150763\/revisions\/150781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}