Members of the committee met to finalise a draft report which details the process followed as well as submissions by legal experts.
CAPE TOWN - A parliamentary committee tasked with amending the Constitution to explicitly allow for land expropriation without compensation met for the last time on Wednesday.
The committee was in a rush against time to finalise its report before Parliament rises next week Tuesday. But it will now be up to the sixth Parliament, after the elections, to take the constitutional amendment forward.
South Africa Latest News, South Africa Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Ramphosa hands over land, compensation in Gauteng - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader.Ramphosa hands over land, compensation in Gauteng Several land claimants and beneficiaries in Gauteng are due to get their land back, while others will receive financial compensation for their dispossessed land.
Read more »
MPs defer work of amending Section 25 to after elections | IOL NewsMPs have adopted a report to be presented to the NA next week recommending that the 6th Parliament be tasked with concluding ...
Read more »
White farmers ready to donate land – MabuzaThe land reform programme also poses no threat to the economic sector, an upbeat Deputy President David Mabuza declared yesterday.
Read more »
District Six residents ready for court battle over land restitution planLast month, the state filed papers in response to a High Court ruling, ordering it to come up with a detailed land restitution plan.
Read more »
State must focus on redistribution in the land expropriation issue, lawyers sayAdvocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi also expressed the view that an amendment to Section 25 is not necessary — what is needed is the implementation
Read more »
Amending Constitution for land expropriation not needed, legal expert tell MPsParliament’s ad hoc committee looking into changing Section 25 of the Constitution received more input from experts, with most opposed to an amendment.
Read more »
OP-ED: The Big Debate: Land Reform – Just an Electoral Ruse?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 hectares of prime agricultural land in the Southern Cape wine region to him in 2013, April has proved his doubters wrong.
Read more »
OP-ED: Squatting on the margins – farmworkers find themselves in housing policy No Man’s LandThe Extension of Security and Tenure Act deters farmers from providing housing on farms. It provides for retiring farmworkers, who have worked and lived at least 10 years up to their retirement on the same farm, to remain living in their farmhouse for the rest of their lives. It requires an onerous and expensive eviction process to get people who do not work on the farm, off the farm.
Read more »
Ramaphosa celebrates settlement of land claims worth R203mIn nine of the ten restitution settlements celebrated on Saturday, the claimants chose to receive financial compensation.
Read more »
Ramaphosa to hand over land to beneficiariesPresident Cyril Ramaphosa will hand over settled and finalised land claims to 10 communities in Gauteng.
Read more »