Taking the land - ANC grasps South Africa's most emotive issue


  • World
  • Friday, 24 Aug 2018

FILE PHOTO: A 'No entry sign' is seen at an entrance of a farm outside Witbank, Mpumalanga province, South Africa July 13, 2018. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) is forging ahead with its plans to change the constitution to allow the expropriation of land without compensation.

U.S. President Donald Trump this week sent the rand into a tailspin by tweeting that he would ask Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to study South African "land and farm seizures" and the "killing of farmers".

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