South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa signed a bill that the bill will allow the government to occupy land without paying compensation. Some people in the government say this is a threat to private ownership.
According to the BBC, the law replaced the 1975 democratic collection bill, “outline how the government is requisitioned on the basis of the country.”
The party of Ramaphosa, the African National Assembly or the African National Assembly (ANC) calls the law a “important milestone”. However, some members of the government said they would challenge the legitimacy of the law.
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Cyril Ramaphosa, President of South Africa, delivered a speech at the Parliament Hall at the Hall of the Congress at the 55th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum on January 21, 2025 at the 55th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, 2025. (Michael Buholzer/Keystone via AP)
For more than 30 years after the ethnic isolation, most black people in the country have only a small part of farmland. According to news reports, most land owners are part of white ethnic minorities.
The new law allows the collection of land only if it is “fair, fair and in line with public interest” without compensation.
This includes that when the property is not used, the property is not intended to develop the property or constitutes a public safety risk.
Presidential spokesman Vincent Magwenya said in the press release: “As far as this law is concerned, the acquiring institutions may not be arbitrarily requisitioned in any or out of public interests or for public interest “” ”
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He added: “Unless the requisition institution fails to successfully try to reach an agreement with the owner or property holder who has the right to property, it shall not exercise the collection.
The Government’s second largest political party Democratic Party (DA) stated that it “strongly opposed” law and is negotiating with lawyers.
It said that although it supports the resolution of land recovery legislation, the procedure is subsequently the process of formulating the law in the country’s parliament.
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The free line of defending the rights of the minority of South African factions and the political parties vowed to challenge the law and implement the “all power” in order to modify it into unconstitutional.
