Amending Section 25 of the Constitution: Five questions answered | gerbjan
The Ad Hoc Committee to Amend Section 25 of the Constitution effectively kicked the political football of expropriation without compensation into touch on Wednesday when it recommended that it couldn't finish its work before the Fifth Parliament next week and that the Sixth Parliament must be tasked to take up the matter.
Yes, it did. But that didn't mean that the Constitution changed. That was the Constitutional Review Committee . Their only job was, in simple terms, to determine if the Constitution should be amended. In the end, they decided that it should be amended to allow expropriation without compensation. The process to pass any legislation is cumbersome. Usually, a draft bill is preceded by a green paper - a policy statement describing what the legislation is about and what form it should take – then a white paper - similar to a green paper, but more refined. Then work on the draft bill starts.
Keep in mind that Parliament adopted the motion that set the review process in motion last year in February, and then only adopted the CRC's recommendation in December. And that was just to decide if Section 25 has to be reviewed.
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