Anony Mous : under Apartheid no property was ever seized
Where do I start? The National Party (which championed apartheid) was elected in 1948. In 1950 they passed the Group Areas Act :
The GAA created the legal framework for varying levels of government to
establish particular neighbourhoods as 'group areas', where only people
of a particular race were able to reside. It displaced hundreds of thousands of
people; breaking up families, friends, and communities. This was due in
large part to the retroactive application of the law, meaning that once
an area was declared a group area, the GAA had the power to demolish all
the houses there and displace everyone who was not of the designated
group.
I witnessed this myself when an area in my city was declared a white group area, and our servant who was Asian was forced to leave her home and live outside the city in accommodation and surroundings far inferior to what she had enjoyed. This affected hundreds of thousands of people. Most cities were declared white group areas, so everyone other than the whites were forced to move outside the cities.
Anony Mous : under ANC it is, as you said with minimal to no compensation for “sins” supposedly committed 300 years ago
(a) that's not what I said
(b) as I explained above, the land which is being returned was primarily seized in my lifetime, since the Group Areas Act was passed in 1950, not 300 years ago.
The Expropriation Act 13 of 2024 makes clear that compensation for land expropriated should be fair and equitable. Section 25 (2) and (3) hold :
(2) Property may be expropriated only in terms of law of general application—
(a) for a public purpose or in the public interest; and
(b) subject to compensation, the amount of which and the time and manner of payment of which have either been agreed to by those affected or decided or approved by a court.
(3) The amount of the compensation and the time and manner of payment must be just and equitable, reflecting an equitable balance between the public interest and the interests of those affected, having regard to all relevant circumstances ...
I did say "There is a recent law which allows for a small number of
exceptions where compensation is not paid and that is usually when a
farm or piece of land is not being used."
Chapter 5 Section 12 (3) of the same Act says :
(3) It may be just and equitable for nil compensation to be paid where land is expropriated in the public interest, having regard to all relevant circumstances, including but not limited to—
(a) where the land is not being used and the owner’s main purpose is not to develop the land or use it to generate income, but to benefit from appreciation of its market value;
(b) where an organ of state holds land that it is not using for its core functions and is not reasonably likely to require the land for its future activities in that regard, and the organ of state acquired the land for no consideration;
(c) notwithstanding registration of ownership in terms of the Deeds Registries Act, 1937 (Act No. 47 of 1937), where an owner has abandoned the land by failing to exercise control over it despite being reasonably capable of doing so;
(d) where the market value of the land is equivalent to, or less than, the present value of direct state investment or subsidy in the acquisition and beneficial capital improvement of the land.
I have provided a link to the law allowing expropriation with and without compensation. Please read what the law says rather than the hype aroused by media reports.
Anony Mous : The Afrikaner did not confiscate Xhosa lands.
See my discussion of the Group Areas Act above. The Nationalist government (not all Afrikaners supported the government e.g. Jan Smuts) confiscated land where blacks were living, regardless of their tribe, if it was declared a white group area. Your reference to "Xhosa lands" is like referring to "Afrikaner lands" and restricting that to the area where the Dutch first settled, in the Cape.
Anony Mous : The ANC represents mostly tribes from the Zulu nation that came from the North
False. While the ANC consists of blacks from many tribes including Zulu, the Zulu nation was largely represented by the Inkatha Freedom Party led by Mangosuthu Buthelezi.
Anony Mous : Anti-Apartheid basically was a ploy to get cheap land and labor.
What do you think the policy of apartheid was? I am lost for words by this 'Alice in Wonderland' reversal of the truth.