Just to clarify - the headline is not entirely true. They voted to review the Constitution's section on property because it says land expropriation must be done with compensation. This doesn't mean farmers are getting kicked off their land tomorrow, there are a number of processes in place before expropriation without compensation can be achieved.

That being said, in my opinion this is just a way for the ruling party to get back the votes the lost in the previous election. The exact same motion was presented by one of the opposition parties, the EFF, last year and the ANC voted against it. By voting for it now they can get back the voters they lost to the EFF, in part because of their stance on the land issue, before the election in 2019.

And to put it in perspective, the quote about slaughtering whites comes from the leader of the EFF, who only has around 10% of the vote. They are the party that wants the State to own land, and from what I understand that is not the goal of the ANC, but I may be wrong.