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COMPENSATION FOR EXPROPRIATION

The Expropriation Act is necessarily unconstitutional

Expropriation law is not a tool of punishment or reparation, it is a tool of social improvement that can only be used under exceptional circumstances

  • Martin van Staden
7 min read