EFF STATEMENT ON THE ADOPTION OF THE REPORT OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW COMMITTEE
Tuesday, 4 December, 2018
The EFF welcomes the adoption of the Constitutional Review Committee Report, by Parliaments National Assembly today. This resolution kickstarts the important process for the amendment of the constitution, to allow expropriation of land without compensation.
This whole process is made possible by a motion of the EFF, resulting in parliament's confrontation of the historic challenge of land dispossession. For the first time, the whole country was led to face up to a matter that causes many nations to disintegrate in violence and death: the land question.
After rigorous, yet peaceful public consultations, parliament has adopted the report of the Constitutional Review Committee, which calls for a constitutional amendment, to allow for expropriation without compensation. Nothing demonstrates South Africa's formidable democracy more than this process.
The EFF is particularly proud of the manner in which the committee handled its affairs, despite numerous intimidation tactics by right-wingers, in the form of Afriforum and the Freedom Front Plus. We are also proud of the hundreds of thousands of South Africans, who participated in the public hearings across the country, and made it absolutely clear that the Constitution must be amended to allow expropriation of land without compensation.