{"id":305120,"date":"2019-03-13T16:21:55","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T14:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=305120"},"modified":"2019-03-13T16:23:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T14:23:02","slug":"land-reform-debate-cant-be-completed-before-the-2019-elections-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/305120\/land-reform-debate-cant-be-completed-before-the-2019-elections-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Land reform debate can&#8217;t be completed before the 2019 elections: Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ad Hoc Committee looking at changing South Africa&#8217;s Constitution to allow for land expropriation without compensation officially <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.parliament.gov.za\/press-releases\/ad-hoc-committee-adopts-report-amending-constitution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">adopted<\/a> <\/strong>a report on its work on Wednesday (13 March).<\/p>\n<p>Committee chairperson, Thoko Didiza, said that in the report it was resolved that it could not conclude its work in the current term of Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>It further recommended that the sixth Parliament be tasked with finalising the amendment of Section 25 of the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>This means that the debate surrounding land expropriation without compensation would only continue after the May national elections and a new parliament has been reconvened.<\/p>\n<p>The report was adopted, with the Democratic Alliance and the African Christian Democratic Party both reserving their rights regarding the recommendation of referral to the next Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers in both chambers of parliament \u2013 the National Assembly and the National Council of Provinces \u2013 in December approved a committee report that recommends the amendment to section 25 of the constitution, which protects property rights.<\/p>\n<p>Another parliamentary committee was set up on 12 February to draft a bill needed to make the changes and elected ANC MP Thoko Didiza, who served as agriculture minister from 1999 to 2006, as its chairwoman.<\/p>\n<p>The National Assembly, which adjourns from 22 March until after national elections on 8 May, will on 19 March debate whether her committee should continue its work until the day before the vote, or whether the new parliament should revive the process.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong> Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/property\/304564\/south-africas-new-land-expropriation-changes-heres-what-is-coming-next\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">South Africa\u2019s new land expropriation changes \u2013 here\u2019s what is coming next<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ad Hoc Committee looking at changing South Africa&#8217;s Constitution to allow for land expropriation without compensation officially adopted a report on its work on Wednesday (13 March).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":295232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-305120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305120","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=305120"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305128,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305120\/revisions\/305128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}