As South Africa commemorates Human Rights Month, the debate over land reform and the Expropriation Act intensifies, raising ...

Expropriation is not new – governments worldwide ... However, Section 12(3) of the Act outlines specific cases where nil ...

That said, the Court also left open several important issues that lower courts will need to grapple with in future FSIA cases involving the expropriation exception, including whether tracing ...

Our people are hungry for land. Their patience has run out… Our task is to address the need of our people for land, and we ...

This is particularly unlikely, Sotomayor suggested, when a foreign government has used commingled funds “for commercial and governmental operations all over the world, as is the case here.” A more ...

While the Act provides a framework for expropriation with and, in limited cases, without compensation, it does not fundamentally alter the state’s cautious approach to reclaiming large tracts of ...

This legislation could help unlock the potential of underused assets and abandoned properties, including mines, inner-city ...

Tensions between South Africa and the new US administration have made headlines in the early weeks of 2025. Early in February, US president Donald Trump took to social media claiming that South Africa ...

Conservatives claim it to be unconstitutional as it permits expropriation without compensation in some cases, but legal scholars argue that it complies with section 25 of the South African ...