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Johannesburg mayor Dada Morero at the official handover of the Southern Farms Housing Project. (X)
ABANDONED BUILDINGS EXPROPRIATION

Johannesburg will expropriate property, but ‘not just for the fun of it’

Mayor Dada Morero said abandoned buildings will be seized to address the 1996 to 1997 RDP waiting list

  • Lunga Mzangwe
6 min read
(constitutionhill.org.za)
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS

Mafora’s ‘legal fictions’ nullify constitutional supremacy

In systems of constitutional supremacy, constitutions may introduce legal fictions, but legal fictions may not be introduced into constitutions, like the Expropriation Act does

  • Martin van Staden
8 min read