South Africans’ hard-earned property could well be snaffled by the State
According to the Bill, ‘expropriation’ means the ‘compulsory acquisition’ of property by an ‘expropriating authority’, such as a municipality.
According to the Bill, ‘expropriation’ means the ‘compulsory acquisition’ of property by an ‘expropriating authority’, such as a municipality.
Eustace Davie believes the country’s minimum wage measures curtail the freedom of workers to choose their trade, occupation or profession.
Dr Michael Louis is ringing the warning bell that the electoral bill, as it stands, is deeply flawed and unconstitutional.
Much has been made of the use of regulations under health legislation to perpetuate measures adopted under the state of disaster.
Bottom line: Lindiwe Sisulu must retract her statements and apologise or face criminal charges. And if Ramaphosa refuses to fire her, he’ll be in violation of the rule of law.
Government’s desire for ultimate control over the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines ignores its Constitutional obligation to South Africans, writes Paul Hoffman.
The South African Bill of Rights does not contain an explicit right for everyone to receive electricity.
The ‘push-back against the sex curriculum by parents, schools, religious bodies and civil society alike, is a clarion call to the state to stay out of their homes’.
There is no doubt that the government’s plans to expropriate land has, as Chuck Stephens from the Desmond Tutu Centre for Leadership puts it, “created a situation.”
The parliamentary processes around what is euphemistically called “expropriation without compensation” of land, which expired in the fifth parliament, have now been revived in the sixth.