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Parliament opens public participation on land expropriation

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Parliament has opened a public participation process on how to implement land expropriation without compensation. The process will open until the end of May.

Land expropriation without compensation a key policy decision taken at the ANC’s national conference in December.

The EFF also tabled a successful motion in the National Assembly to support the proposed policy.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has made is clear that the policy will be implemented after undertaking a public participation process. He’s however emphasised that the policy will not be implemented in a reckless manner of threaten food security.

Detractors of the policy insist that it is unnecessary. They believe the government must improve efficiency in the land reform programme.

Parliament’s high level panel of legislative review, headed by former President Kgalema Motlanthe, has also cautioned against the amendment of the Constitution to implement land expropriation without compensation.

The panel also insisted that the land reform is being delayed by corruption and efficiencies need to be addressed.

The Joint Constitutional Review Committee has called for written public submissions on the review of section 25 of the Constitution in order to effect the expropriation of land without compensation in the public interest.

Parliament spokesperson Moloto Mothapo says: “The constitutional review committee has called for public submissions and other sections where necessary to make it possible for the state to expropriate land in the public interest without compensation.”

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