{"id":263269,"date":"2018-08-06T10:44:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T08:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=263269"},"modified":"2018-08-06T10:44:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T08:44:00","slug":"3-new-property-laws-the-anc-wants-to-introduce-alongside-land-expropriation-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/property\/263269\/3-new-property-laws-the-anc-wants-to-introduce-alongside-land-expropriation-report\/","title":{"rendered":"3 new property laws the ANC wants to introduce alongside land expropriation: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the issue of land expropriation without compensation now kicking into high gear, the ANC held a two-day lekgotla this past week where a number of issues where discussed.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/sunday-times\/news\/2018-08-04-state-identifies-farms-for-land-expropriation-test-cases\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Sunday Times<\/a><\/strong>, a number of ANC insiders who attended the lekgotla provided details on the legislative plans and what they called the expropriation &#8220;guinea pig&#8221; scheme.<\/p>\n<p>The insiders said that in addition to amending section 25 of the\u00a0constitution to allow for expropriation without compensation, the ANC&#8217;s plans include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A new land\u00a0records bill aimed at documenting all land owners, and\u00a0ensuring security of tenure;<\/li>\n<li>A new redistribution bill that would provide a framework for deciding who gets priority access to land;<\/li>\n<li>Amending the Interim Protection of Informal Land Rights Act to recognise those who have lived on a property for three years or more as de facto owners who cannot be dispossessed without their consent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The insiders also indicated that the department of rural development and land reform had already identified 139 farms across the country that would serve as &#8216;test cases&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>However, details about these farms, including whether they are currently occupied or productive, could not be established.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week president Ramaphosa announced that the ANC would finalise a proposed amendment to the Constitution that outlines more clearly the conditions under which expropriation of land without compensation can be effected.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers started a process to change the constitution to allow for expropriation without compensation in February after the ANC decided last year to adopt the measure to speed up giving black people more land.<\/p>\n<p>While the constitution\u2019s property clause currently allows the state to expropriate land with just and equitable compensation and also expropriate without compensation in the public interest \u201cit has become patently clear that our people want the constitution be more explicit about expropriation of land without compensation, as demonstrated in the public hearings,\u201d President Cyril Ramaphosa said in his speech.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/262385\/anc-will-change-the-constitution-to-take-back-land-ramaphosa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ANC will change the constitution to take back land: Ramaphosa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the issue of land expropriation without compensation now kicking into high gear, the ANC held a two-day lekgotla this week where a number of issues where discussed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":257227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12755],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-263269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-property","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263269"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263295,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263269\/revisions\/263295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}