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WATCH: Unpacking the prickly issue of land reform

Anthea Jeffery from the South African Institute of Race Relations and Bulelwa Mabasa from Werksmans Attorneys talk to Business Day TV 

President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed into law the Expropriation Bill, which aims to address land inequalities that have plagued SA since the colonial and apartheid eras. Picture: 123RF/LOES KIEBOOM
President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed into law the Expropriation Bill, which aims to address land inequalities that have plagued SA since the colonial and apartheid eras. Picture: 123RF/LOES KIEBOOM

There are many responses to the government’s programme of land expropriation without compensation, including sociopolitical hot potato, economic disaster and a necessity to correct past injustices.

Anthea Jeffery, the head of policy research at the South African Institute of Race Relations and Bulelwa Mabasa, a director and land claims specialist at Werksmans Attorneys, who also sits on President Cyril Ramaphosa’s land reform advisory panel, joined Business Day TV to discuss the issue.

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