19 February 2019 – IRR submission on the Draft Expropriation Bill of 2019. Read the IRR’s submission to the Department of Public Works warning of the Expropriation Bill’s likely adverse repercussions.
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14 November 2018 - The IRR is briefing lawyers in preparation for taking the procedurally flawed work of parliament’s Constitutional Review Committee on judicial review.
10 October 2018 – In a nutshell, here are the key points on what South Africans really think about expropriation without compensation.
7 September 2018 - Read the IRR’s submission to parliament on why we oppose amending Section 25 of the Constitution.
29 June 2018 – This is the IRR’s response to a new bill, aimed at re-opening the land claims process for five years, which is just as flawed as the similar 2014 Act struck down by the Constitutional Court in July 2016
22 June 2018 - This report underlines the threat of Expropriation without Compensation – to the economy, to urban homeowners, the majority of whom are black, to the poor streaming to the cities in the hope of a better life, and to emergent farmers whose success hinges on secure title.
20 June 2018 – ‘Empowering the State, Impoverishing the People’ is a report the IRR today released in Washington in the United States to advance its campaign to protect and extend the property rights of all South Africans.
27 March 2018 - The numbers in the 2017 State Land Audit: Private Land Ownership by Race, Gender and Nationality report released in February this year have been used extensively to motivate for expropriation without compensation of white owned land. In the EFF motion to amend Section 25 of the constitution the Audit is cited as the source for the claim “that black people own less than 2% of rural land, and less than 7% of urban land”.
26 May 2016 – South Africa needs to redesign its land reform policy to pay far more attention to the essential ingredients of entrepreneurship and training, says the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) in a paper published in Johannesburg this week.
4 March 2015 – The Expropriation Bill of 2015 again gives the State the power to take ownership and possession of property of virtually any kind by notice to the owner – and without a prior court order confirming the validity of the expropriation.