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Essays

Vol. 24 No. 2 (2021): The Spectious Dividends of Peace in the Horn of Africa

Expropriation without Compensation: Una lotta a lance spuntate

  • Cristiana Fiamingo
Submitted
April 3, 2024
Published
2024-04-03

Abstract

This essay aims, first, to provide the reader with a critical examination of the complex crossing between the constitutional revision procedure that unfolded from the parliamentary approval of the “Land Expropriation Without Compensation” (LEWC) motion, on 27 February 2018, to the approved Expropriation Bill on 28 September 2022. Second, to focus on the contextual failed social justice compliance on behalf of the African National Congress. Third, on the positive effects deriving from the quadruple and quintuple helix between the public administration, the industrial and the civil society with the academy, within the broad social context of a country coming to terms with delicate questions. This was proved by the audits and the reports issued by the toplevel panels involved in these processes, and the extraordinarily outspoken South African academic production on the subject, offering social parts perspectives and examples on the complex sets of plans to be accorded with the value implications related to the land issue in South Africa, and the different underpinning narratives. Necessarily neglecting the agrarian policies and the expected consequences that could derive from the expropriation instrumental means of land reform on both the internal and international market, we focus here specifically on post-apartheid land restitution and redistribution policies, pivotal in the LEWC instance, and their implications.