South Africa: No Need to Amend Constitution, Academics Tell Constitutional Review Committee

4 September 2018

Academics told the Joint Constitutional Review Committee (CRC) on Tuesday that it is not necessary to amend section 25 of the Constitution to effect substantial land reform.

It was the first day of the oral submissions on amending section 25 of the Constitution to allow for expropriation of land without compensation, and the general consensus among the academics who presented was that it is the government's inability to carry out land reform that was to blame for the continuing inequality in South Africa's pattern of land ownership, rather than the Constitution.

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