South Africa’s new Expropriation Act: Three opinions and the Act
Thursday, 06 February 2025
Posted by: Bert vd Heever
Professor Zsa-Zsa Boggenpoel has lectured both property law and advanced property law at Stellenbosch University (SU) since 2011. Her area of research interest includes a range of topics in the field of property law. She currently specialises in property law, constitutional property law and property theory.
Read her opinion in The Conversation
Berry Everitt, CEO of the Chas Everitt International property group, was interviewed by the Real Estate Investor and comments on the fear of state expropriation without compensation, sparked by poorly informed commentary.
Read the interview in the Real Estate Investor
On the 4th February, Business Day published the opinion of Martin van Staaden, Executive Director of FMF (Free Market Foundation) whose opinion also highlights thespread of misinformation among South African Commentators.
Read this opinion of FMF in Business Day
The summary of the Act reads:
To provide for the expropriation of property for a public purpose or in the public interest; to regulate the procedure for the expropriation of property for a public purpose or in the public interest, including payment of compensation; to identify certain instances where the provision of nil compensation may be just and equitable for expropriation in the public interest; to repeal the Expropriation Act, 1975 (Act No. 63 of 1975); and to provide for matters connected therewith.
Readers can download and decide on their own interpretation of the Act here
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