South Africa's parliament recently passed a motion for land expropriation from white farmers without compensation, a policy driven by the radical left party, Economic Freedom Fighters, under the leadership of Julius Malema. This motion, supported by the ruling African National Congress under President Cyril Ramaphosa, passed with a landslide vote of 241 to 83. Though the country's constitution must be amended to enact this confiscation, the necessary political support exists among black parties to push it forward. Malema's version of the bill stipulates that even after confiscation, the land will not be owned by black individuals but by the government, with bureaucrats deciding its allocation. He has declared that the time for reconciliation is over, now emphasizing justice. This situation mirrors the events in Zimbabwe under Robert Mugabe, where fast-track land reform led to catastrophic economic decline. Once the fastest-growing economy in Africa in 1997, Zimbabwe became the fastest-shrinking by 2003. A former net exporter of agricultural products like maize, cotton, and tobacco, the country saw production plummet after land seizures. Maize output dropped from over 1.5 million tons annually before 2000 to just 500,000 tons in 2003, wheat from 309,000 tons to 27,000 tons, and tobacco from 265,000 tons to 66,000 tons. These seizures primarily benefited ruling-party officials and Mugabe's associates, rather than black farm managers or workers, displacing over a million farm workers and their dependents, many now at risk of starvation. The economic fallout was severe, with GDP halving, inflation soaring to 7600%, unemployment reaching 80%, and life expectancy dropping dramatically. South Africa appears to be following a similar path, with signs of this trajectory evident for years. The impending land confiscation policies echo Mugabe's destructive model, threatening to replicate Zimbabwe's economic and social collapse.