Dr Pieter Groenewald, leader of the FF Plus, will tomorrow leave for Brussels in Belgium, where he will address, amongst others, the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) about the ANC government’s intended plans for expropriation without compensation.
He will do so during UNPO’s 26th presidency meeting that takes place on Friday the 23rd of March and Saturday the 24th of March.
On Thursday the 22nd of March, Dr Groenewald will also address the Flemish Interest Youth in Gent on the topic of farm murders and he will discuss abuses against minorities with other stakeholders as well.
All this is part of the FF Plus’s continuous action to inform the international community of the abuses in South Africa and, in particular, forms an integral part of the FF Plus’s action plan that was announced at the beginning of this month and is aimed at putting a stop to the government’s plans to amend the Constitution so as to make expropriation without compensation possible.
In accordance with the abovementioned action plan, the party has undertaken to internationalise expropriation without compensation by means of liaising with the European Parliament, other governments, the United Nations (UN) and by way of the FF Plus’s membership to UNPO.
Dr Groenewald’s upcoming visit to Europe suits the action to the word. South Africa is a signatory of the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Expropriation without compensation is a violation of Section 17 of this Declaration and the FF Plus will bring that to the attention of the rest of the world.
In June last year, Dr Groenewald addressed UNPO’s 13th general assembly in the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh on the topic of self-determination; he said that self-determination is an internationally recognised and accepted principle that grants minority groups the right to protect themselves against cultural assimilation and the consequent disappearance into the majority.
He said that self-determination is enshrined as a right of “all people” in the UN’s International Bill of Rights as well as in the International Declaration of Civil and Political Rights.
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