The SAIRR files a petition to halt Zuma from signing the Land Expropriation Bill

Parlaiment approved the Expropriation Bill once again yesterday after it was amended. The bill would allow state expropriations of land to redress racial disparities in land ownership. The bill, in the works since 2008, will enable the state to pay for land at a value determined by a government adjudicator and then expropriate it for the "public interest", ending the willing-buyer, willing-seller approach to land reform. Parliament initially passed the bill in February before it was sent for amendments and it remains only for President Jacob Zuma to sign it into law. The SAIRR has since filed a petition to halt the president from signing it into law...

Guest: Dr Anthea Jeffrey
Position: Head of Policy Research at the IRR