Promotion of Historic Justice and De-Colonial Reparations Bill

Reclaiming our history.
Restoring our future.

A proposed Private Member’s Bill creating a state-to-state pathway to pursue international reparations for the structural harms of colonialism—without targeting individual South African citizens or drawing on the national budget.

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The campaign’s central proposition: historical liability should be pursued state to state—not shifted onto present-day South African households.
The core mission

Shift the scale of accountability.

For decades, South Africa has carried the financial burden of addressing structural wounds through its own national budget. The proposed Bill seeks to establish a formal international pathway aimed at former colonial states and their commercial sovereign assets.

State-to-state claims

The proposed mechanism focuses on sovereign accountability rather than individual citizens or domestic property owners.

Budget neutral

The campaign proposes external recovery, arbitration and settlement mechanisms instead of taxpayer-funded implementation.

Domestic rights protected

The supplied proposal states that existing private property rights and diplomatic assets remain outside the recovery process.

Public participation

The campaign calls for consultations, written submissions and public hearings across all nine provinces.

Four pillars

The legal architecture at a glance.

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Colonialism as a state crime

Define colonialism as an institutional system of state-sanctioned violence and exploitation.

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Doctrine of Discovery

Challenge the historic legal foundation used to justify ancestral land seizure.

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Protecting the budget

Structure the proposal so recovery does not rely on South African taxpayer funding.

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International arbitration

Offer a voluntary framework before pursuing non-diplomatic commercial assets.

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Public consultations

Nine provinces. One national conversation.

The campaign proposes public consultations to collect civil-society input, oral histories and written submissions before parliamentary committee review.

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Public participation

Help shape the public record.

Sign the petition, attend a provincial consultation or volunteer to support public education.