Afriforum Threatens Legal Action Against Gnu Over Expropriation Act

Lobby Group, AfriForum is threatening legal action against the Government of National Unity GNU should the government start expropriating land without compensation.

President Cyril Ramaphosa signed the Expropriation Bill into law on Thursday . The aim of the law is to repeal the Apartheid-era Expropriation Act of 1975.

The law also sets out instances where organs of the state may expropriate land in the public interest. It says land may only be expropriated when the expropriating authority fails to reach an agreement with the owner of the property with the purpose of acquisition.

AfriForum Head of Public Relations, Ernst van Zyl says, The President should not have signed the Bill into law, seeing as there are still very serious flaws within the Bill itself. Serious flaws that open the door for land expropriation without compensation of private property and that would be against Section 25 of the Constitution, making such action as unconstitutional and therefore Afriforum has made it clear to the President and the Government of National Unity that if they were to start targetting private property for expropriation without compensation, Afriforum will be the first organization to take them to court because we have a very solid case.

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