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South Africa: Ad Hoc Committee Concludes Briefing by Experts on Land Reform and the Constitution
Govt of SA, 11 March 2019
The Ad Hoc Committee to Amend Section 25 of the Constitution continued with hearings with experts on the question of land reform, which will assist with drafting the necessary… Read more »
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South Africa: Amending Section 25 - When Election Rhetoric and Real Law-Making Collide
Daily Maverick, 10 March 2019
Amid above-inflation electricity tariff hikes and steep petrol price increases, Eskom's restructuring and the political noise some eight weeks before the 8 May elections, land… Read more »
No Constitutional Amendment on Land Reform Until After Polls?
The actual process of amending the South African Constitution's clauses on land expropriation will only happen after the national elections, ANC constitutional review committee member Vincent Smith has said. This comes after several experts appeared before Parliament's ad hoc committee to determine what would be necessary to amend section 25 of the Constitution.
Land reform is favouring businesses over poor individuals, two researchers have claimed.
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South Africa: Land - Parliament's Failure to Enact Legislation the Problem - Advocate Ngcukaitobi
News24Wire, 8 March 2019
The overemphasis on compensation in the debate on land reform removes focus from the work that needs to be done for redistribution to take place, advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi told… Read more »
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South Africa: President Cyril Ramaphosa - Land Handover Ceremony
Govt of SA, 9 March 2019
Address by President Cyril Ramaphosa at the Land Handover Ceremony, Moretele Recreation Resort, Mamelodi Read more »
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South Africa: Writing the 2019 Elections - Appeasing the EFF Can Only Be a Disaster for the ANC
Daily Maverick, 10 March 2019
With the election eight weeks away, the EFF appears to have made something of a pincer movement on the ANC. They have prodded the ANC on policy, and made it more inviting for… Read more »
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South Africa: The Big Debate - Land Reform - Just an Electoral Ruse?
Daily Maverick, 8 March 2019
Errol April is an MK veteran who grew up on the Cape Flats. Fruit farming is a long stretch from what he knows: explosives and bombs. But since the government made available 211… Read more »
InFocus
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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 ... Read more »
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Conservative lobby group AfriForum's urgent application to interdict the adoption of the Constitutional Review Committee's first report into land expropriation without compensation ... Read more »
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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 ... Read more »
