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Parliament will re-establish an ad hoc committee to amend article 25 of the Constitution and allow expropriation without compensation.
- The ad hoc committee created to amend article 25 of the Constitution has adopted a draft program of public hearings.
- It also resolved to seek solutions that allow the participation of people with comorbidities.
- The committee will visit Limpopo, Northern Cape and Western Cape at the end of October.
The process to amend article 25 of the Constitution, to allow expropriation without compensation, is back on track.
On Thursday, the ad hoc parliamentary committee created for this purpose adopted a program that will take him to visit Limpopo, the North Cape and the Western Cape later this month.
However, the committee will meet again next week to discuss some outstanding issues arising from the draft program.
DA MP Annelie Lotriet asked how the committee will treat people with comorbidities who would like to make presentations.
He also noted that the program does not include two districts in the Western Cape, Overberg and Karoo.
The committee will discuss solutions to this next week.
In July of last year, the National Assembly resolved to appoint the committee and give it the task of amending Section 25 of the Constitution. This after the committee of the Fifth Parliament, with the same task, could not finish its work before the Parliament rose for the 2019 elections.
In May, all parties in the National Assembly Programming Committee agreed to let the ad hoc committee amending Section 25 lapse. The committee had a deadline to finish its work at the end of May.
It was in the midst of a broad process of public participation that the coronavirus reached South Africa and physical distancing measures were put in place to prevent its spread.
Therefore, the committee could not continue with the public meetings, which generally attracted groups of more than 50 people.
A week later, to the surprise of opposition deputies, the ANC proposed to reestablish the committee.
This was done in June, when the National Assembly adopted a motion to reinstate the committee.
The committee’s deadline is December 31, 2020.
