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@Liberty – The Expropriation Bill is back and it's still unconstitutional

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 ...

@Liberty - A new Expropriation Bill by another name

25 February 2014 - Media coverage of the Promotion and Protection of Investment Bill of 2013 (the Investment Bill) has focused on its role in replacing South ...

@Liberty - Economic Freedom - The Key to Prosperity

14 October 2014 - True economic freedom stimulates investment and employment. It makes for faster economic growth and increased prosperity for all, including ...

@Liberty - Patents: The Next Part of the Property Rights Grab

29 October 2014 - The State is seeking wide powers to take or bypass patent rights. Patents are important because they help to quicken the growth rate, ...

@Liberty - Property Rights Belong To All: Women and Property Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa

25 November 2020 - This argues that women in Africa remain excluded from the benefits of property ownership, and this must receive the attention of policy ...

@Liberty - Reaching the Promised Land: An alternative to the report of the Presidential Advisory Panel on Land Reform and Agriculture

This @Liberty looks at the current situation regarding land reform in South Africa and explains the ideological imperative behind the government’s drive of ...

@Liberty - The property rights grab

Property rights are under threat from a Constitutional Court decision on mining rights in 2013. This threat has since been compounded by the Promotion and ...

The Criterion Report Vol 1 No 2

26 September 2018 - More than two thirds of South Africans believe individuals should have the right to own property, and 90% are opposed to the government ...

FreeFACTS - June 2018

22 June 2018 - This report underlines the threat of Expropriation without Compensation – to the economy, to urban homeowners, the majority of whom are black, ...

A True 'Human Right': Why Property Rights are Indispensable

10 November 2021 – This paper argues that property rights are human rights which not only give people legal and social recognition of their assets, but are an ...