South Africa: Expropriation Without Compensation - a Conference to Discuss the Wrong Issues

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A conference on expropriation without compensation - which deputy minister of rural development and land reform Mcebisi Skwatsha says is to be convened by the ruling ANC - would serve merely to push South Africa down a fruitless blind alley while avoiding the key reasons why land reform has failed to live up to its expectations.

According to reports, conference on expropriation without compensation will seek to set out a framework for expropriation without compensation, after which all state bodies will begin to implement it.

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