The debate about Expropriation without Compensation ignores threats to the property rights of the rural poor contained in bills before Parliament.
Tag: Traditional Khoi-San and Leadership Bill
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Sep 27 2018
Public hearings on land have largely missed the nuance of this complex topic
The release of Kgalema Motlanthe’s High Level Panel report in November 2017, alongside resolutions from the 54th conference of the African National Congress (ANC) and the ultimate success of an Economic Freedom Fighters’ motion on land expropriation earlier this year, has made land reform an emotional and topical issue in South Africa.
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Sep 17 2018
Invitation for Written Submissions: Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill (B23B-2015)
The NCOP Select Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs has invited stakeholders and interested people to make written submissions on the Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill (TKLB). Submissions must be sent to the Committee Secretary, Mr. Thembile Moses Manele, at tmmanele@nullparliament.gov.za. The closing date for submissions is 19 September 2018.
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Aug 13 2018
Amending the property clause risks making poor more vulnerable to dispossession without compensation
A man sitting next to me at a land workshop in Rustenburg last month asked me sadly whether the problems on the platinum belt meant, as some younger delegates alleged, that Mandela had indeed sold black people out during the negotiations leading up to the 1994 transition to democracy. People were sharing their experiences of …
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May 02 2018
Traditional leaders – not rural citizens – are at the centre of the land expropriation debate
Land expropriation without compensation has already galvanised much public debate and contestation among leadership from all sectors, but what does this mean for people living in rural areas?
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