De Lille receives 50k submissions expressing objection to Expropriation Bill

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Public Workers and Infrastructure Minister Patricia de Lille says her department has received 50,000 submissions commenting on the expropriation bill. | Gaye_Davis

CAPE TOWN - Public Workers and Infrastructure Minister Patricia de Lille on Tuesday said her department had received 50,000 submissions commenting on the Expropriation Bill.

The Expropriation Bill is intended to replace the old Expropriation Act of 1975, which is not in line with the Constitution.Parliament’s public works oversight committee was briefed on the bill on Tuesday. “In drafting the bill, the input from the public was considered. And that is why attached to the presentation today, is annexure A - we’re making that available to the committee today to see what transpired during that process because we categorised the 50,000 inputs into different categories.”

 

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