Constitutional changes can’t resolve the real causes of slow and fraught transformation of property ownership
Section 25 of the Constitution is the key but a new Expropriation Act is also urgently needed
It’s 200 years since the Xhosa were driven from their land and it has not yet been restored to them
The ANC proposes to continue working with large agricultural businesses, an approach that has to date marginalised small-scale farmers
Redistribution must favour the poor and include the ability to make the land productive
The Union of South Africa and the women struggle for visibility in the courts
The way in which land is expropriated is just as important as the outcomes that are achieved
In 1902, there were already stirrings of people who were resisting being thrown off the land
Any amendment must be constitutional, which means certain principles must be adhered to
The Constitution’s property clause, based on party principles, already has a transformative mandate