Ernst van Zyl shares his thoughts on the controversial expropriation without compensation bill that was recently passed.
South Africa’s much talked-about Expropriation Act is something that should be looked at in the context of its painful past ...
South Africa has a new law to govern the expropriation (or compulsory acquisition) of private property by government for ...
A: The Act says that first the expropriating authority must serve you with a notice of intention to expropriate. You will ...
Understandably, the act will have a severe impact on property rights. But it still substantially protects landowners affected ...
The 2025 law differs from the old Act in that it includes fixing skewed land patterns, and introduces compensation based on ‘justice and equity’ and not ‘willing buyer, willing seller’ ...
It opens up the possibility of all sorts of regulatory limitations on property with no compensation where the state does not ...
Presidency spokesperson, Vincent Magwenya, said that President Cyril Ramaphosa was confident that the misunderstanding over ...