MPs expected to report back on expropriation without compensation only at end of November
27 September 2018
South Africans will have to wait another two months before they know whether the Constitution should be amended to allow for land to be expropriated without compensation.
The Joint Constitutional Review Committee has requested more time to process all the inputs and expects to be ready with a final report only in November. The committee was due to report to Parliament on Friday.
This is the committee's second postponement on the controversial issue whose process involved hundreds of people participating in public hearings and thousands of written submissions delivered to Parliament. The initial deadline had been August 30.
Chairperson of the committee Lewis Nzimande said in a statement on Thursday that the committee had requested a postponement after considering the volume of public inputs received on the matter and realising that it would not be able to meet the Friday deadline for the report, as set by Parliament.