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In February 2018, the Parliament of South Africa passed a motion to review the property ownership clause of the constitution, to allow for the expropriation of land, in the public interest, without compensation, [14] [15] [16] which was widely supported within South Africa's ruling party on the grounds that the land was originally seized by ...
By Ed Stoddard JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling party aims to test clauses in the constitution to see if they allow for land to be expropriated without compensation to address racial ...
By Ed Stoddard JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) is forging ahead with plans to change the constitution to allow the expropriation of land without ...
From this point a series of laws secured white control of South African land and civic property. The Land Act 1913 reserved 92% of South Africa's territory for whites, and only 8% for blacks. This was enlarged to around 13.6% by the Native Trust and Land Act, 1936 , although the population of the country that was black stood around 61%.
(Bloomberg) -- The South African government’s plans to expropriate land without compensation would be disastrous for the economy, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said.The policy proposal is ...
Land in Bolivia was unequally distributed – 92% of the cultivable land was held by large estates – until the Bolivian national revolution in 1952. Then, the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement government abolished forced peasantry labor and established a program of expropriation and distribution of the rural property of the traditional landlords to the indigenous peasants.
Land is a hot-button topic in South Africa, where racial inequality remains entrenched more than two decades after the end of apartheid when millions among the black majority were dispossessed of ...
The court found that it should balance the rights of property owners under the Constitution [27] with those of indigents and occupiers, [28] and ruled that the landowners' right to equality [29] would be infringed if the state were to burden them with providing alternative accommodation without compensation. The obligation to provide access was ...