LETTER: Expropriation Bill’s threat could be mortal
The extension of the deadline for public comment on the Expropriation Bill to February 28 is welcome
The extension of the deadline for public comment on the Expropriation Bill to February 28 is to be welcomed. The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) has long warned that the implications of this legislation — along with other elements of the push to expand state power to take people’s property — are so extensive and dire that, at the very least, they require a thorough process of debate and input so that the public understands its consequences.
Affording the public a little more time to comment goes some small way to addressing this. The IRR is proud that its work contributed to the extension. But much more needs to be done. The Expropriation Bill represents a grave danger to every property holder and every aspirant property holder in the country. It skews the expropriation process decisively in favour of the state — a state that has not shown itself to be a model of probity...
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