The headline "Clarity at Last on Land Expropriation (https://www.businesslive.co.za/fm/opinion/editorial/2020-10-15-editorial-clarity-at-last-on-land-expropriation/)" (Editorials, October 15-21) suggests that the recently published Expropriation Bill will provide SA with the elusive certainty that is so important to economic take-off.
Actually, it doesn’t. While it does list conditions under which expropriation may be undertaken at "nil" compensation, these are prefaced by the words "including but not limited to". This isn’t a closed list and much else could be invoked to deny compensation...
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