AGRICULTURE NEWS - According to former president Kgalema Motlanthe, South Africa would not be able to build a thriving economy if private property rights became eroded.

Motlanthe, who chaired the High Level Panel on the Assessment of Key Legislation and the Acceleration of Fundamental Change, spoke at a recent meeting in Pretoria that was held to discuss progress made with the South African Agricultural Development Agency (ADA), which is being spearheaded by former constitutional development minister Roelf Meyer’s In Transformation Initiative.

The report produced by the high-level panel recommended that there was no need to change the Constitution in order to allow for expropriation of land without compensation.

But Motlanthe said that soon after the report was presented to Parliament in November 2017, Parliament “went on a detour” when a resolution on the expropriation of land without compensation was adopted at the ANC’s National Conference in December 2017.

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