Ngcukaitobi: Expropriation Bill doesn’t go far enough

ADVOCATE Tembeka Ngcukaitobi has become the latest critic of the Expropriation Bill but for different reasons, describing it as not going far enough, as an instrument for government acquisition and not for for the landless.

Ngcukaitobi, author of The Land Is Ours: Black Lawyers and the Birth of Constitutionalism in South Africa, published in 2018, said the bill, recently passed by Parliament, differed from the apartheid-era Expropriation Act 1975, which was the responsibility of the then minister of agriculture.