The debate about Expropriation without Compensation ignores threats to the property rights of the rural poor contained in bills before Parliament.
Tag: rural communities
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Sep 13 2018
Latest Traditional Courts Bill draft flouts constitutional rights even more disturbingly
Perhaps we should have seen this coming. Based on the antagonistic tone of the Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services during public hearings held in March this year, the newest version of the Traditional Courts Bill (TCB) was likely to be a disappointment.
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Jun 11 2018
Dispossession without compensation the legacy for poor rural communities
While the nation debates the amendment of the Constitution to provide explicitly for expropriation without compensation, the Constitutional Court is preparing to rule on the rights of poor black communities in mineral-rich former homelands who are routinely dispossessed without consultation, compensation or even formal expropriation.
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