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10 May 2021
Daily Maverick
President Cyril Ramaphosa has agreed to a new land expropriation party committee in return for high-level party support for his tough stance on the step-aside rule.
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27 April 2021
BusinessTech
On 13 December 2019, the Constitution Eighteenth Amendment Bill (the Amendment Bill) was published in the Government Gazette. Since then, a lot of water has passed under the bridge with regards to an amendment to the laws of the Republic of South Africa dealing with the expropriation of land without compensation.
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23 April 2021
News 24
Farmers and residents in the North West have voiced concerns around the Expropriation Bill, with one saying: "Stop running in circles. Stop saying the same thing without producing results."
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16 April 2021
News 24
The ad hoc committee amending Section 25 of the Constitution will now turn its attention to deliberate on the amendment after it finalised the public participation process.
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29 March 2021
Moneyweb
Not least of all the proposed inclusion of nil compensation.
Expropriation read moreDespite the implementation of the new minimum wage a Stellenbosch-based pressure group Women on Farms believe female farmworkers are still often underpaid and overlooked by their employers. This, they say, deepens the gender pay gap. Agri SA labour specialist Lebogang Sethusha says Stats SA’s...
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30 March 2021
Moneyweb
After a week of often heated debate and input in parliament.
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30 March 2021
IOL
The agricultural and agribusiness sector said it hoped that the renewed debate over section 25 of the Constitution and the Expropriation Bill would not detract from initiatives intended to drive the sector’s growth and expansion, the Agricultural Business Chamber said yesterday.
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25 March 2021
Parliament
Parliament and its committees have the right to ask any institution or person to report to them and may summons any person to appear before them.
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27 March 2021
IOL
The hearings into amendments to Section 25 of the Constitution to allow for the expropriation of land without compensation got off to a bumpy start this week, with the EFF and Afriforum butting heads with MPs.
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Western Cape inclusionary housing policy framework open for comment https://www.westerncape.gov.za/eadp/news/western-cape-inclusionary-housing-policy-framework-open-comment
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If we are looking for the intersection of opportunism and desperation this has to be it.
“Those selling the land of the dead are greedy for money, We grew up knowing that we must respect the dead".
https://www.groundup.org.za/article/graves-desecrated-for-housing-in-pietermaritzburg/
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