After being re-elected as Leader of the African National Congress Youth League, Julius Malema said the following about nationalisation of mines and redistribution of land in South Africa...
"The reason the liberal and right wing forces celebrate when the ANC moves away from their two-thirds majority support in elections is because they are aware that, with the two-thirds majority, we will be able to change the Constitution.
Particularly the sunset clauses [clauses that expire after a set period], which committed us to leave South Africa’s wealth and land in white people's hands, while the majority of black, and particularly Africans, live in starvation and poverty.
For us to expropriate without compensation we’ve got to change the Constitution. The only solution for us is to take or grab land without compensation.
Willing-buyer, willing-seller is not an alternative... The alternative from the youth league is that we take the land without paying. That is what we are proposing
We must use the political power that we have been given. Because we’ve got more numbers we should have a greater portion of the land."
Julius Malema as shown in the Sunday Times last weekend
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