LETTER: Expropriation Bill is not a land issue
The bill and its constitutional amendment is a danger to every South African who owns or aspires to own property
23 February 2021 - 15:44
All attention is on the budget this week, but the defining issue confronting SA is the question of property rights. Little is likely to be a more acute disincentive for the investment — domestic and foreign — we so desperately need than the degradation of property protections.
This makes the policy programme encapsulated in the Expropriation Bill and the proposed amendment of section 25 of the constitution a profound threat to SA’s future...
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