Lamola says land expropriation would ‘honour’ Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Expropriating land without compensation will be a "befitting tribute" to Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, says Ronald Lamola. Madikizela-Mandela died on Monday, and Lamola was part of a delegation of the ANC’s national executive committee (NEC) which visited her house on Thursday. The NEC and national working committee member made it clear that the government can start doing this within the ambit of Section 25 of the Constitution, without having to amend it. Lamola, who was elected to the ANC’s highest decision-making body in December during its national conference, was deputy president of the ANC Youth League when Julius Malema was still its president. The National Assembly recently passed a motion in Parliament in which it tasked the constitutional review committee with looking into Section 25 to allow for the expropriation without compensation of land, in the public interest. As it stands now, the Constitution allows for expropriation of land in terms of the law of general application ...
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