{"id":161065,"date":"2017-02-28T17:39:39","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T15:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=161065"},"modified":"2017-02-28T18:02:28","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T16:02:28","slug":"wherever-you-see-land-that-you-like-take-it-malema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/161065\/wherever-you-see-land-that-you-like-take-it-malema\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Wherever you see land that you like, take it&#8217; &#8211; Julius Malema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) have on Tuesday tabled a motion in Parliament requesting an amendment that would enable expropriation of land without compensation.<\/p>\n<p>EFF leader Julius Malema said: &#8220;This is a motion that seeks to unite black people in the country. If leadership was united this wouldn&#8217;t be a problem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said that it can&#8217;t be that 75% of the land is still owned by white people. &#8220;We remain a conquered nation because of this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Malema said that no white person would understand this call because they don&#8217;t know how it is to be landless. &#8220;Many people died without knowing how a title deed looks like and yet we say South Africa belongs to all who live in it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let us change the constitution now. Let us give our people their land back,&#8221; Malema said.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/EFF-e1488296134386.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-161073\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/EFF-e1488296134386.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Malema also commented on President Jacob Zuma\u2019s controversial statement\u00a0that South Africa will change its laws to allow government to expropriate land without compensation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our president Zuma said we must expropriate land with no compensation last week. Why are you defying him? You&#8217;re defying your president because you only subdue to white rule and will never listen to any view opposing whites.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;South Africa has now seen you for what you are. You are a walking contradiction. You&#8217;re now exposed,&#8221; Malema said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in February, president Zuma sent the expropriation bill back to the National Assembly for review.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/160313\/zuma-says-government-will-take-land-without-compensation-report\/\" target=\"_blank\">Zuma says government will take land without compensation: report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) have on Tuesday tabled a motion in Parliament requesting an amendment that would enable expropriation of land without compensation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":132531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-161065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161065","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=161065"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161079,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161065\/revisions\/161079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}