President Cyril Ramaphosa’s recent signing into law of the Expropriation Bill got headlines screaming boldly. Discernible in most news coverage was the same old imagination that the expropriation law starts and ends with land reforms in South Africa.
Many should learn that while expropriation of land is the right legislative instrument to provide legal basis for the state to address historical land injustices, it is by no means limited to that purpose.
Dealing with historical land dispossessions is just one among the purposes for which lawmakers place such an instrument in the hands of governments.
Political parties in SA seem to largely seek to align themselves with what they think are the hopes of their constituencies, with regards to land ownership.
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