The ANC will not nationalise land; it will be handing over title deeds so that the people own land, the party said on Tuesday. The ANC decided at a two-day lekgotla to amend the Constitution to expropriate land without compensation. It resolved on expropriating land without compensation at its national conference in December and has been through an intensive process to decide whether it required an amendment the Constitution. After its land summit in May, the ANC said it did not believe that the Constitution had to be amended to expropriate land without compensation. However, head of its economic development sub-committee Enoch Godongwana said it as clear that the majority of the people of the country want the Constitution amended. The party realised this as it observed the hearings by Parliament’s constitutional review committee, which is on the brink of wrapping up its work. "It is very clear our members … were supporting [an] amendment and we are clear land must be redistributed ...
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