Call to stop paying taxes until ANC restores peace in South Africa by Transvaal Agricultural Union

Transvaal agricultural union: perhaps it's time for taxpayers to hold back taxes until peace returns to South Africa Why should the taxpayers have to pay for the public demonstrations who have now spilled over also to Parliament?" asks TAU SA President, Mr. Louis Meintjes following the events of Pres. Jacob Zuma's State of the Nation Address. "Is it now perhaps time to look for ways to hold back taxes until order and service delivery has been restored from the lowest to the highest level of government." "The country is more and more changing into a democratic dictatorship," said TAU SA's General Manager, Mr. Bennie van Zyl. "While suggestions on land ceilings and other issues are still being prepared for submission in March this year the President unilaterally announces land ceilings and the abolition of the willing buyer, willing seller principle. Doing so he is finally deleting the so-called democratic process," said Mr. Van Zyl. "In addition the principle of private ownership is negatively affected by land ceilings and other forms of interference in land purchases. To make announcements about issues that have not yet been properly discussed or debated shows the President’s absolute ignorance of agriculture and its value to the economy. He will soon enough realize what this will do to food security and investor confidence. The fall in the rand in the last few days should have been a good indication for him to take into consideration." Mr. Van Zyl says he even sometimes got the impression that Mr. Zuma accidentally took last year's papers - there was nothing in his speech that seizes the imagination or give hope. It was a repetition of the old struggle rhetoric, and promises of improvement are sounding year after year more meaningless. Meanwhile the overall situation in the country deteriorates drastically because of government’s destroying of capacity and infrastructure by racially motivated laws like affirmative action and black economic empowerment, without taking ability and skills into consideration. He lacked leadership in a time of crisis. The ANC's policy environment is still preparing a scenario of destruction of the economy by sending out those wrong signals. "Now all the country’s citizens have to sleep in this bed that has been made up by ANC. This is not sustainable nor acceptable," said Mr. Van Zyl. "http://www.tlu.co.za http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/politics/EFF-10-takeaways-20150213