By Lehlohonolo Lehana.
The Western Cape High Court hears a court challenge brought by the AfriForum, the Instititute of Race Relations Legal and the DA against the Expropriation Act.
AfriForum, the DA, and the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) want certain provisions of the Act struck down.
President Cyril Ramaphosa. Public Works, the National Assembly, the Speaker, and the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) chairperson are respondents in the matter.
Ramaphosa signed the Expropriation Bill into law in January 2025, setting new guidelines for land expropriation without compensation.
The Bill, which replaces the Expropriation Act of 1975, allows land expropriation without compensation if it’s in the public interest or for a public purpose.
It also irked US President Donald Trump, who claimed that South Africa’s expropriation law is aimed at “seizing ethnic minority Afrikaners’ agricultural property without compensation”.
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