President Zuma needs to send job-killing Expropriation Bill back to Parliament
25 July 2016
President Jacob Zuma’s request for further information from both Houses of Parliament on the process followed in the passing of the controversial, job-killing Expropriation Bill in Parliament is tacit acknowledgement on his part that this Bill has major Constitutional problems.
We trust that this is a legitimate first step by the President in sending this Bill back to Parliament, in line with the Section 79 petition the DA sent him last month.
This petition followed advice from our lawyers that the Bill is unconstitutional, both in its content, but also because of the procedural irregularities which characterised its passing.
We now urge the Speaker of the National Assembly and the Chair of the National Council of Provinces to be fully transparent in their compliance with this request. This information must be tabled in both Houses’ parliamentary papers so that all MPs can scrutinise the details.