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EXPROPRIATION WITHOUT COMPENSATION
CONFERENCE
Dates: 09h00 – 17h15 | 20 November 2018
09h00 – 14h00 | 21 November 2018
Venue: Radisson Blu, Sandton, cnr Rivonia Rd & Daisy St
Cost: Free
RSVP: http://www.freemarketfoundation.com/View-Event?i=195
International speakers:
Maria Corina Machado and Dr Sary Levy Carciente (Venezuela)
Rejoice Ngwenya (Zimbabwe)
Barun Mitra (India)
Franklin Cudjoe (Ghana)
Olumayowa Okediran (Nigeria)
Mugabi John Socrates (Uganda)
Adv Linda Kavuka (Kenya)
Aimable Manirakiza (Burundi)
Dr Tom Palmer (United States)
Local speakers:
Penuell Maduna | Former Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development
Leon Louw | Executive Director, Free Market Foundation
Lawrence Mavundla | President, National African Federated Chamber of Commerce
Temba Nolutshungu | Director, Free Market Foundation
Eustace Davie | Director, Free Market Foundation
Candice Pillay | Attorney and Partner, Hogan Lovells
Martin van Staden | Legal Researcher, Free Market Foundation
Devon Windvogel | Lecturer, School of Accounting, Economics and Finance, UKZN
Terence Corrigan | Policy Fellow, Institute of Race Relations
Petrus Sitho | Full time activist for property rights
Phephelaphi Dube | Director, Centre for Constitutional Rights
20- 21 November 2018
Conference on Security of Property Rights
Case studies from Venezuela, Africa, India, Europe and Asia;
achieving land reform without undermining property rights
Programme
TUESDAY | NOVEMBER 20 | 0900-1705
Moderator Temba Nolutshungu | Director, Free Market Foundation
0900-0930 Land audit nonsense: Why “left” and “right” wing audits are virtually meaningless
Leon Louw | Executive Director, Free Market Foundation
0930-1010 Lessons from Venezuela (via video)
María Corina Machado | Former Member of the National Assembly & Presidential Candidate
Sary Levy Carciente | Member of the National Academy of Economic Sciences & responsible
for calculation and analysis of International Property Rights Index, Property Rights Alliance
1010-1040 Lessons from India
Barun Mitra | Independent researcher and analyst & founder of Liberty Institute
1040-1110 TEA
1110-1240 Lessons from Africa
Rejoice Ngwenya (Zimbabwe) | Founder and Executive Director,
Coalition for Market and Liberal Solutions
Olumayowa Okediran (Nigeria) | Assistant Director of International Programs,
Students For Liberty
Franklin Cudjoe (Ghana) | Founding President and Chief Executive Officer,
IMANI Centre for Policy and Education
1240-1400 LUNCH & NETWORKING
Moderator Phumlani Majozi | Board member, Free Market Foundation
1400-1430 Remaking South Africa: Unfinished business
Penuell Maduna | Former Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development
1430-1530 Lessons from Africa
Linda Kavuka (Kenya) | Advocate of the High Court of Kenya
& African Programs Manager, Students For Liberty
Aimable Manirakiza (Burundi) | Founder and Chief Executive Director,
Centre for Development and Enterprises Great Lakes
1530-1600 TEA
1600-1630 Lessons from Europe and Asia
Tom Palmer | George M Yeager Chair for Advancing Liberty &
Executive Vice President for International Programs, Atlas Network
1630-1700 Lessons from South Africa – “Never Again”
Lawrence Mavundla | President, National African Federated Chamber of Commerce and
Industry (Nafcoc) & African Co-operative for Hawkers and Informal Business (Achib)
1700-1705 Close
WEDNESDAY | NOVEMBER 21 | 0915-1400
Moderator Ayanda Khumalo | Chairman, Free Market Foundation
0915-1000 Transforming the urban landscape through FMF’s Khaya Lam (My Home) project
Temba Nolutshungu | Director, Free Market Foundation
Maria Klaas & David Ubane | First time home owners, Ngwathe
1000-1100 Fast, affordable, simple – Khaya Lam’s property transfer process
Eustace Davie | Director, Free Market Foundation
How removing RDP pre-emptive clauses will make home ownership a reality
Candice Pillay | Attorney and Partner, Hogan Lovells
Enable small-scale farming and end ‘mega-farming’ by repealing subdivision restrictions
Martin van Staden | Legal Researcher, Free Market Foundation
1100-1130 TEA
1130-1230 Expropriation without compensation: Yet another barrier to entry
for millions of disadvantaged South Africans
Devon Windvogel | Lecturer, School of Accounting, Economics and Finance, UKZN
If government is serious about land reform, it should create owners not tenants
Terence Corrigan | Policy Fellow, Institute of Race Relations
EWC will cause job losses and economic decline – leave Section 25 alone
Petrus Sitho | Full time activist for property rights
1230-1300 No need to change the constitution to effect restitution
Phephelaphi Dube | Director, Centre for Constitutional Rights
1300-1305 Close
1305-1400 LUNCH & NETWORKING
RSVP: http://www.freemarketfoundation.com/View-Event?i=195
EXPROPRIATION WITHOUT COMPENSATION
OVERVIEW
The Constitution of South Africa currently requires that government pay compensation when it takes private property (i.e. expropriates), which is the common practice around the world. In February 2018, the South African government, however, resolved to pursue a policy of expropriation without compensation (EWC).
Government’s narrative has implied that EWC will only apply to rural land (moreover, to rural land held by white farmers). This is, however, not how constitutional doctrine functions. If EWC is amended into the Constitution, all property will be subject to it, regardless of government’s verbal, or even written, assurances to the contrary.
Secure private property rights are absolute prerequisites to a prosperous society and to individual freedom. EWC will undermine all the progress South Africa has made since Apartheid ended, and will guarantee that absolutely no progress can be made in the future. It is imperative that EWC be abandoned and that land reform be pursued under the current, powerful provisions of the Constitution.
EXPROPRIATION WITHOUT COMPENSATION
SUBMISSION | ARTICLES & MEDIA RELEASES | VIDEOS
Media release: No to Expropriation Without Compensation
Submission to Parliament on EWC
Land reform: The free market way
Never again – property rights must be protected
Expropriation without compensation is a betrayal of the struggle
Expropriation without compensation tramples the sacrifices made by those who fought against colonialism and apartheid
South Africa PLUMMETS to 37th in global property rights rankings, falling behind Rwanda
Will South Africa go the way of Zimbabwe?
African judges defend Rule of Law
Bad faith public participation in expropriation without compensation hearings a travesty of participatory democracy
Six myths about the land question that must be exposed
Title deeds are simply a means to an end – security of property rights
Land reform urgently needed in urban areas
‘Never again’ until next time
Property rights are human rights
Expropriation without compensation is an assault on the constitutional right to dignity
Expropriation of property without compensation – 75 per cent to change the Constitution
Videos (other FMF videos available here: https://www.youtube.com/user/ChannelFMF/videos)
Expropriation without compensation – betrayal of the struggle
International Property Rights Index launch (see six other parts as well)
75% is what it will take to change s25 of Constitution – no argument
(Executive summary)
Expropriation without compensation and the National Democratic Revolution