TAU SA urges farmers to fight for their land

The Transvaal Agricultural Union of South Africa (TAU SA) has called on farmers whose land has been targeted for expropriation, either without compensation or at a lower than market value, to refuse to leave their land.

A decision was taken at the African National Congress’s Lekgotla more than a week ago, to expropriate without compensation farms‚ in line with calls for Section 25 of the Constitution to be amended to allow this.

The meeting heard that 139 farms had been identified to serve as test cases. TAU SA North Chairperson Henk van de Graaf says they will declare a dispute with government over the expropriation of any land in Limpopo as well as over the legality of such an amendment to the Constitution.

“Our belief is that expropriation without compensation or with no market value compensation is anything but theft and the farmers are prepared to defend their land, they are not going to take it away. We ask farmers en masse to sign the dispute that we are going to launch with government.”