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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“Man was born rich, or inevitably grows rich by the use of his faculties; by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual proposition.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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