Hlaudi’s party opposed to expropriation without compensation
CONTROVERSIAL former SABC boss Hlaudi Motsoeneng has indicated that his political party, the African Content Movement, will oppose any attempt by the ANC and the EFF to go ahead with expropriation of land without compensation, insisting that those who owned it had paid for it.
Motsoeneng was speaking yesterday in Soweto, where he was on the campaign trail for his new political party, which is set to contest the May general elections.
“The government must buy the land back and give it to those people who want the land,” he said.
Motsoeneng also questioned the ANC’s capacity to address the land issue, saying the party was incompetent.
“Everybody is talking about land but the question is, if you are talking about the land and you are a ruling party and you can’t even give title deeds to our people, how are you going to resolve the issue of land?,” Motsoeneng asked.
He threatened to implicate a number of ANC leaders if he is made to testify before the Zondo commission into state capture.
Motsoeneng has been accused of being at the heart of allegations of corruption and irregularities which brought the SABC under severe financial strain, including through irregular appointments and massive salary increments for himself and others seen to be close to him.
He said a number of personalities within the ANC had tried to influence him when he was at the helm of the public broadcaster.
“If I go to the commission, some of the ANC people are going to be in trouble because I was not captured by them. They tried to capture me but I capture myself unfortunately,” Motsoeneng said.
He said he had decided to accept the allegations that he was “corrupt”, adding that his corruption was good corruption and defendable.
“Maybe I should accept that I am corrupt, and I am accepting it. I am corrupt. My corruption is the good one because it is turning around the lives of the people of South Africa. That is my corruption.
“If they call me at the state capture commission, I am going to enjoy myself and I am going to tell them yes, I am corrupt but this is the good corruption to turn around the lives of our people,” he said.
Motsoeneng said his party was setting its eyes on getting more votes in Gauteng as he described it as “confused”.
“Gauteng is very confused. This is the opportunity for us. Even the people of the ANC here are not loyal to the ANC. As we are speaking, the people of the ANC are going to vote for ACM. People in South Africa want someone who is tested on decision-making and if you talk about anyone who is tested in South Africa, it is only me.”