SOUTH AFRICAN trade unions welcomed a new land reform law yesterday which allows expropriation to reverse centuries of colonialism.
The African National Congress-dominated parliament in Cape Town passed the Expropriation Bill on Thursday, replacing the apartheid-era 1975 Act of the same name.
The legislation replaces the “willing buyer-willing seller” principle of land redistribution with the “just and equitable” principle of the 1994 post-apartheid constitution.
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The charter emerged from a profoundly democratic process where people across South Africa answered ‘What kind of country do we want?’ — but imperial backlash and neoliberal compromise deferred its deepest transformations, argues RONNIE KASRILS


