After the adoption of the Expropriation Bill in 2023, the FF Plus asked political parties to, in terms of section 80 of the Constitution, challenge the constitutionality of the Bill in the Constitutional Court.
Section 80 of the Constitution determines that one third of the members of the National Assembly (NA) may apply to the Constitutional Court to obtain an order that a parliamentary law is unconstitutional, whether partially or in its entirety.
This has to be done within 30 days after the date on which the President signed and promulgated the law.
Therefore, the FF Plus is once again calling on the parties that voted against the Expropriation Bill to join hands and commence this process.
This is just one of the steps that the FF Plus is taking to prevent the Expropriation Act, which President Cyril Ramaphosa promulgated yesterday, from being implemented.
The FF Plus maintains that the law is unconstitutional. It not only poses serious risks for South Africans as regards their property rights, but it also sends an extremely negative message to the international community.
Investors will not easily be persuaded to invest in a country where their property could be expropriated.
If there are not enough parties to support a section 80 application, the FF Plus will still approach the Constitutional Court to challenge the Act’s constitutionality.
All South Africans as well as everyone in any democratic dispensation have the right to own property, and government has no right to expropriate it without market-related compensation.
