Malema wants private property
"Let's have that land for our people"
The property clause in the Constitution should be amended to strengthen it, ANC Youth League president Julius Malema said on Thursday.
"The ANCYL's view is that the property clause should be amended and that proper legislation should be passed by Parliament to regulate how the State should expropriate private property in the interests of the people," Malema told reporters at Luthuli House in Johannesburg.
It did not matter where that land was situated and when there was land available for settlement.
"Let's have that land for our people," he said.
"We need a government that will say we're going to take this land, then we will determine the price... take it, or leave it."
The government has admitted that the willing buyer, willing seller policy for land expropriation was not working.
Malema said "an unambiguous policy position" was needed for the State to take whatever land necessary and itself decide on the compensation.
The ANCYL would push for a change in the ANC's policy position on land after the ANC national general council, being held in Durban from September 20 to 24.
The ANCYL wants the ANC to take on a much more "radical economic transformation programme".
"[We are] using the national general council as a launch event for this radical economic transformation," Malema said.
He again emphasised the importance of the Freedom Charter in formulating ANC policy.
"None of the resolutions taken by the ANC national general council should suggest any diversion from the essence of the Freedom Charter objectives.
"This extends to the resolution the national general council should take on banks, monopoly industries, land, housing, education, work and security, peace and friendship and all the Freedom Charter says we should realise."
Malema said the focus of the ANCYL was currently on economic freedom. Its aim, therefore, would be on taking the ANC in an ideological direction to accomplish this.
It would then deal with the question of leadership.
"We are not starting with leaders. We are starting with programmes. We want a leadership that speaks to the programmes we are talking about.... We will never embrace person who still salutes imperialism and colonialism."
The ANC national general council is a mid-term policy review and is the highest decision-making body between national conferences.
tereblanche
YAK YAK YAK YAK.Does all he ever knows.i made a mistake in the past by supporting that chompa head guy called zuma.no moreReport Abuse
Tom
Our black people are staying in squeezed shacks whereas some one is owning a huge land in which he/she is not producing anything on it. So I say Yes to this proposal.Lets take this land for our peopleReport Abuse
Hype
Comrade Malema. I don't care about the other issues but I just want u to know for someone who is reported to have got an "F" in woodwork, you have super brains. It takes an intellectual person to push for such policies. I applaud u chief and 100% behind u. Its time Africa enrich its own people, we are gatvol of being beggars man!Report Abuse
BhutPapi
juju is slowly coming back, i missed him during the world cup. He has a point and i wonder why where they not thinking of this long before Juju starts pushing them from the back to impliment, i am still waiting for Nationalazation of mines. Aluta continua mchana...Report Abuse
Gzza
Juju, I thought I was the only idiot until I learnt that your mother brought you into this world...I'm so sad that she did not have enough knowledge to opt for an abortion during her pregnancy with youReport Abuse
kolobe
fact blacks are poor (most earn less than R30 000) and what malema puts on the table will probably alleviate that. i dont understand why some people would not wanna benefit from the riches of our land.its common sense reallyReport Abuse