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The National Assembly has agreed to establish a multiparty committee to introduce legislation amending section 25 of the constitution.
This is the next major step in the government’s push to allow for land expropriation without compensation.
The new committee will report back to the National Assembly by 31 March 2020, and will and be composed of 11 voting members and 14 non-voting members.
Voting members will be drawn from the African National Congress (6), the Democratic Alliance (2), the Economic Freedom Fighters (1) and other parties (2
South Africa takes step towards land expropriation without compensation
This week, the National Assembly agreed to establish a multiparty committee to introduce legislation amending section 25 of the constitution.
This is the next major step in the government’s push to allow for land expropriation without compensation.
The new committee will report back to the National Assembly by 31 March 2020.
New proposals for how land expropriation without compensation should work in South Africa
Earlier during the declarations, DA Chief Whip John Steenhuisen cautioned a constitutional amendment was nothing but a plaster on a 20-year failed track-record of land reform and restitution. “What this motion is… is the greatest hoax perpetuated on the people of South Africa,” said Steenhuisen. “This plaster that you are trying to use, is a smokescreen of the government failures of the last two decades.” Other opposition parties echoed such sentiments. IFP MP Elphas Buthelezi said while the party supported land reform – and bigger budgets for that – expropriation without compensation was not a solution. “We cannot use such a sensitive matter to play politics.”
ACDP MP Steve Swart described the constitutional amendment process as “a fraud” that would leave South Africans disappointed.
While ANC MP Mathole Motshekga outlined the human rights violations of land dispossession as far back as the Khoi-San – saying the motion was needed “for redressing of the injustice of the past and the recovery of the dignity of people, both black and white,” EFF MP Hlengiwe Mkhaliphi bluntly told the governing party it would be watched to prevent a dilution of the constitutional amendment. “We [the EFF] are here to ensure we will get our land back to the rightful owners, which are the black people,” said Mkhaliphi. The House now had the opportunity “to allow the natives who have lost so much to reclaim their dignity… by getting their land back,” she added. “No longer shall we be treated like slaves in our own land. Never.”
Constitutional amendment process for expropriation without compensation is revived
The National Assembly has agreed to establish a multiparty committee to introduce legislation amending section 25 of the constitution.
This is the next major step in the government’s push to allow for land expropriation without compensation.
The new committee will report back to the National Assembly by 31 March 2020, and will and be composed of 11 voting members and 14 non-voting members.
Voting members will be drawn from the African National Congress (6), the Democratic Alliance (2), the Economic Freedom Fighters (1) and other parties (2
South Africa takes step towards land expropriation without compensation
This week, the National Assembly agreed to establish a multiparty committee to introduce legislation amending section 25 of the constitution.
This is the next major step in the government’s push to allow for land expropriation without compensation.
The new committee will report back to the National Assembly by 31 March 2020.
New proposals for how land expropriation without compensation should work in South Africa
Earlier during the declarations, DA Chief Whip John Steenhuisen cautioned a constitutional amendment was nothing but a plaster on a 20-year failed track-record of land reform and restitution. “What this motion is… is the greatest hoax perpetuated on the people of South Africa,” said Steenhuisen. “This plaster that you are trying to use, is a smokescreen of the government failures of the last two decades.” Other opposition parties echoed such sentiments. IFP MP Elphas Buthelezi said while the party supported land reform – and bigger budgets for that – expropriation without compensation was not a solution. “We cannot use such a sensitive matter to play politics.”
ACDP MP Steve Swart described the constitutional amendment process as “a fraud” that would leave South Africans disappointed.
While ANC MP Mathole Motshekga outlined the human rights violations of land dispossession as far back as the Khoi-San – saying the motion was needed “for redressing of the injustice of the past and the recovery of the dignity of people, both black and white,” EFF MP Hlengiwe Mkhaliphi bluntly told the governing party it would be watched to prevent a dilution of the constitutional amendment. “We [the EFF] are here to ensure we will get our land back to the rightful owners, which are the black people,” said Mkhaliphi. The House now had the opportunity “to allow the natives who have lost so much to reclaim their dignity… by getting their land back,” she added. “No longer shall we be treated like slaves in our own land. Never.”
Constitutional amendment process for expropriation without compensation is revived
