Opponents of a controversial South African land expropriation bill are calling the legislation a threat to private ownership after it was endorsed by the country's president.

The country is having another attempt at passing an expropriation law that is in keeping with the constitution. The 2015 version, with slight amendments and the addition of clauses 12(3) dealing ...

But, putting all of this aside, the Expropriation Act is necessarily – that is, by its very nature – unconstitutional, because it misconceives of expropriation law.

A proposal to change South Africa's constitution to explicitly allow expropriation of land with no compensation failed to win the two-thirds of parliamentary votes that it needed on Tuesday.

President Donald Trump has targeted South Africa for "confiscating land" and has said he will "cut off all future funding" while an investigation takes place.. He announced the move on his Truth ...

The panel found that "government should use its expropriation powers more boldly, in ways that test the meaning of the compensation provisions in Section 25(3)". Advertisement ...

The Expropriation Act has been a point of contention in the government of national unity (GNU) amid claims that the DA, which shares power with the ANC and other parties, was not informed ahead of ...

South Africa's main house of parliament took a first step on Tuesday toward enabling the state to make compulsory purchases of land to redress racial disparities in land ownership.

“Parliament will have to deal with the Land Expropriation Without Compensation Bill to achieve agrarian reform and spatial justice. We want to make all rights visible,” Ramaphosa said.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa signed a controversial bill into law Thursday that authorizes the government to expropriate private land without compensation in certain cases.. The law, the ...