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.
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.
The proposed mechanism focuses on sovereign accountability rather than individual citizens or domestic property owners.
The campaign proposes external recovery, arbitration and settlement mechanisms instead of taxpayer-funded implementation.
The supplied proposal states that existing private property rights and diplomatic assets remain outside the recovery process.
The campaign calls for consultations, written submissions and public hearings across all nine provinces.
Define colonialism as an institutional system of state-sanctioned violence and exploitation.
Challenge the historic legal foundation used to justify ancestral land seizure.
Structure the proposal so recovery does not rely on South African taxpayer funding.
Offer a voluntary framework before pursuing non-diplomatic commercial assets.

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