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Press Release

Our Land, Our Rent, Our Jobs

Uncovering the explosive potential for growth via resource rentals

Stephen Meintjes & Michael Jacques

Publication: 2nd July 2015

Publisher: Shepheard-Walwyn

www.shepheard-walwyn.co.uk

ISBN 9780856835049 £19.95 paperback

South Africa may seem far away but it is strategically important to the West. Out of frustration at the slow progress with land apportionment and high unemployment, a radical party with Marxist leanings has emerged which could turn to China and Russia. To take the heat out of the situation the authors show how a reform of taxation can lead to a more equitable distribution of land and wealth, while at the same time stimulating the economy and job growth. They illustrate how the current tax regime makes 50% of the country economically unviable and recommend a return to the tried and tested system that served Johannesburg so well as a local tax and still serves the gold mining industry well.

Mugabe's policy of violent expropriation has ruined the economy in Zimbabwe and, unchecked, the same could happen in South Africa. In an open letter to Richard Branson, published in the Mail and Guardian last year, Andile Mngxitama, the Economic Freedom Fighter’s (EFF’s) commissar for land and agrarian revolution wrote: “Our media reports that you have just bought yourself a 40 hectare wine farm in Franschhoek. Sir, you have bought stolen property. The consequence of your witting or unwitting participation in this illegal transaction is that the EFF policy of land expropriation without compensation may, in the near future, affect your investment adversely.”