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‘Nil compensation’ is a legally and constitutionally sound tool that parliament has chosen to use to achieve legitimate governmental ends

Expropriation Act: Van Staden misrepresents the Constitution and the law

‘Nil compensation’ in the Expropriation Act is a legally and constitutionally sound tool that parliament has chosen to use to achieve legitimate governmental ends

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Many sexual offences are still framed in ways that rest on discriminatory assumptions. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy/M&G

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

  • Des Erasmus
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