Land expropriation without compensation is a method to acquire land, but not the sum total of land reform or restitution. That’s the long and short from the Presidential Advisory Panel on Land Reform and Agriculture, whose report was released last week. The report contains recommendations aimed at speeding up land reform and the redistribution of land. Among the recommendations is a constitutional amendment to allow for land expropriation without compensation in limited circumstances.
To help us with this discussion we are now joined on the line by:
• Professor Ruth Hall from the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies at the University of the Western Cape she is also a member of the presidential expert advisory panel on land reform and agriculture.
• Stanley Peterson who is the leader of the indigenous land rights political party the Khoisan Revolution and he also speaks on behalf of the National Khiosan Council.
