Gauteng premier, David Makhura, appointed a task team to do an audit of all “unused” land in the province to start expropriation without compensation immediately. Makhura says he is not going to wait for the proposed legislation to go through as the constitution already makes provision for expropriation and needs to be tested.
The audit will determine all privately owned land not in use at the moment, including those purchased by developers for future property development and land owned by people living abroad. Mahura says this land will be handed over to “the people” for the purpose of erecting houses or cultivation.
The DA Mayor of Johannesburg, Herman Mashaba, despite the DA not supporting the new legislation, also announced that he was doing an audit of buildings in the Johannesburg CBD currently not in full use, with the purpose of expropriating those.
Today is the cut off date for submissions on the proposed expropriation without compensation bill.
But quite obviously South Africa has gone beyond the point of waiting for anything to become legal before it is done.
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