Property Rights
Former president of the ANC Youth League Julius Malema demanded the nationalisation of the mining industry, and urged the seizure of property from white farmers, similar to the policy enacted by Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe which is widely blamed for bringing the country to economic ruin.
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“Personal rights, universally the same, demand a government framed on the ratio of the census: property demands a government framed on the ratio of owners and of owning.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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