South Africa’s much talked-about Expropriation Act is something that should be looked at in the context of its painful past ...

The signing of the Expropriation Bill follows a five-year process of extensive public consultation and parliamentary debate.

Understandably, the act will have a severe impact on property rights. But it still substantially protects landowners affected ...

South Africa has a new law to govern the expropriation (or compulsory acquisition) of private property by government for ...

The Expropriation Act sets out a clear legal framework under which expropriation may take place, always with due process and ...

And this excludes courts and their own procedures, thus making the process of expropriation unduly cumbersome. There are many more, and space constraints do not permit for elaboration. The point ...

Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Dean Macpherson has reiterated government's stance on the Expropriation Act, stressing that no one in South Africa will "have their land confiscated"."The ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Wednesday evening he was boycotting the G20 meeting in South Africa scheduled for ...

Expropriation is an old and normal legal institution ... to convince the court – according to the rules of evidence and due process – that someone has committed a crime or delict.

However, the government's efforts to speed up the process through an expropriation without compensation policy have been ...

Even after the expropriation process has been initiated, the Act requires that there be consensus between the expropriating authority and the owner of the property on the amount of compensation ...

CEO Khulekani Mathe says the Expropriation Act, in its present form, incorporates sufficient checks and balances to prevent the arbitrary expropriation of land without compensation. Concerns that the ...