CDE Submission on the Expropriation Bill, 2020 to the Portfolio Committee on public works and infrastructure
7 April 2021
Releasing CDE’s submission on the Expropriation Bill today, CDE executive director Ann Bernstein said, “SA’s land reform challenge is not about expropriation. This Bill does nothing to address the underlying problems of capacity, competence and integrity that bedevil governments land reform strategy.”
For the past two decades CDE has worked on land reform and put forward detailed practical proposals on how South Africa can deal with the legacy of apartheid, build on state and private sector capacity to successfully manage land reform, and help build a prosperous future for all its citizens, urban and rural.
CDE argues that, for a country desperate for higher rates of investment, the Expropriation Bill and the headlines accompanying its passage through parliament’s consultation process could not have been more poorly timed.
“This,” says Bernstein “was the worst possible time for the country to revisit its expropriation regime.”