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Saai: Presidential report on land reform is disappointing

The Southern Africa Agri-Initiative (Saai) is disappointed with the report presented by the so-called advisory panel of land reform experts to cabinet, and at this stage wants to put forward an opposite view on key aspects of the report.

Family farmers against expropriation without compensation!

Although our current Constitution allows for expropriation subject to “just and equitable” compensation, the draft Constitution Eighteenth Amendment Bill, 2019, which is open for comment until 31 January 2020, wants to explicitly allow for “nil” compensation where land is taken for the purposes of “land reform”. Three sections of the Constitution recognises and entrenches the […]