Ordinary South Africans' turn to speak about expropriation – Constitutional Review Committee
21 June 2018
It is now the turn of ordinary South Africans to speak up about expropriation without compensation. Parliament's Constitutional Review Committee was quite clear about this when it made its final logistic arrangements for the upcoming public hearings in the country's provinces on Thursday.
The committee is looking into amending the Constitution's section 25 – the property rights clause – particularly whether or not to allow expropriation of land without compensation, after the National Assembly passed a motion to this effect in February.
"There is no one who is going to get preferential treatment at all," co-chairperson Vincent Smith told the committee.
"My view is, we're going as facilitators. We're not going to push the party line."