Local authorities in the South African city of Ekurhuleni are set to begin expropriating privately owned land, without paying for it, as part of a national test case for the country’s controversial land reform program. The city council approved an “expropriation without compensation” bill that had been pushed by ruling African National Congress (ANC) earlier this year, the Associated Press reports. Nearly... 

South African whites who “stand in way of social cohesion” will be “crushed” and in for a “very rough” time if they continue to oppose the ANC, Mzwandile Masina, the mayor of one of South Africa’s Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality, has announced. Speaking during a civic reception in the Boksburg Civic Centre on Monday evening this week, Masina said he was sending a “strong warning”...