The ANC has agreed to engage further on it’s expropriation of land without compensation policy.
The governing party held a consultative summit last weekend focusing on its 54th National Conference resolution on land redistribution and in particular the use of expropriation without compensation as a primary instrument to speed up land and agrarian reform.
The summit recommendations included amending Section 25 of the Constitution to press ahead with expropriation of land in order to test the argument that the Constitution does permit expropriation without compensation in certain circumstances.
The summit also received input from and noted the report of the Motlanthe High Level Panel on Assessment of Key Legislation & Acceleration of Fundamental Change, which recommended that the ANC further engage with the specific issues raised and the recommendations outlined in the report, including engagements with traditional leaders and communities living on communal land.
ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule says: “We have taken a decision to engage traditional leadership throughout South Africa and that is work in progress. We are saying the views of comrade Kgalema Motlanthe were not the views of him as an individual. It was the views of that Parliament…..and it was not the views of the ANC when it comes to traditional leadership and the land.”
“I think we are saying as the ANC we need to accept and understand that there are other views and we need to bring all these views together. We need to engage and that is why we will be engaging the traditional leadership.”
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