A total of 209 MPs have voted in favour of adopting the report on the expropriation of land without compensation by the Constitutional Review Committee recommending an amendment of Section 25 of the Constitution.
Conservative lobby group AfriForum's urgent application to interdict the adoption of the Constitutional Review Committee's first report into land expropriation without compensation has been dismissed.
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The Joint Constitutional Review Committee has adopted a resolution that Section 25 of the Constitution be amended to allow expropriation without compensation. The process will now go through a number of phases, including another public participation procedure and will have to be passed with a two-thirds majority in the National Assembly.
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Parliament's Joint Constitutional Review Committee has been mandated to consider whether a constitutional amendment is needed to ease expropriation of land without compensation. This, according to The Daily Maverick's Marianne Merten, is a foregone conclusion.
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