From the Heritage Foundation, I'm Tim Desher, and this is Heritage Explains.

Apartheid left a devastating mark on South Africa and the world.

In 1948, several laws were passed, officially making whites the superior race, and subjected blacks to discrimination in almost every aspect of life.

Blacks were stripped of their right to own a business or land in white areas,

and were forced into using separate schools,

transportation, and public facilities.

Many blacks were denied citizenship, and even interracial marriages were forbidden.

This lasted for a long 46 years until it was finally overturned in 1994.

Since then, South Africans have built a thriving country with peaceful transitions of power

and the strongest economy in Africa.

But as in many cases in life, healing from past wounds is not always easy. Throughout the past 24 years, since apartheid ended,

many proposals have surfaced to make right what was made wrong. One of those is the idea of expropriation,

or the action by a government of taking private property and giving it to someone else.

In this case, it's taking land from whites and giving to blacks.

Last month, the president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, and the ruling political party,

the ANC, took it a step further and announced they will move

to amend the South African Constitution to allow for expropriation without compensation.

The ANC will, through the parliamentary process, finalize a proposed amendment to the Constitution

that outlines more clearly the

conditions under which expropriation of land without compensation can be effected.

The intention of this proposed amendment is to promote redress, advance economic development, increase agricultural

production and food security.

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