LAND EXPROPRIATION WITHOUT COMPENSATION: Amending Constitution’s Section 25 draws to a close — but EFF makes last stand for nationalisation

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The clock is ticking toward the end-May deadline for a constitutional amendment to expressly allow land expropriation without compensation. But the EFF is pushing for an expansionary take that other opposition parties say is beyond the mandate of legislators. The ANC is watching.

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If EFF MP Mbuyiseni Ndlozi and EFF Chief Whip Floyd Shivambu had their way, the current Constitution 18th

At last Friday’s meeting of the ad hoc committee on amending Section 25 of the Constitution, the EFF MPs pushed their proposals hard, while artfully dodging ANC MP Cyril Xaba’s question whether the EFF really meant all property is up for compensationless expropriation, not just land — and whether one should not extract land from the definition of property when it came to expropriation without compensation.

The ANC MPs didn’t seem to mind, not until it seemed the EFF was telling them what to do. “We know what we want to do. We will not be told by the EFF…” ANC MP Dibolelo Mahlatsi eventually said, adding that the governing party would not be pre-empted.Amendment Bill that was taken for public comments and hearings is tightly phrased.

That motion on looking into a constitutional amendment came at an opportune time for the ANC, fresh from its December 2017 Nasrec conference where the radical economic transformation (RET) grouping at the last minute secured a resolution on compensationless expropriation. that showed compensationless expropriation was widely seen as shorthand for redressing apartheid dispossession., and on 6 December 2018 the National Assembly voted 183 in favour, 77 against, in support of the process currently under way.but a draft bill was published in December 2019But with the May 2019 elections and the Covid-19 lockdown from March 2020, progress was slow. With several extensions to the ad hoc committee’s lifespan, the deadline for it to conclude its work is 31 May 2021.

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