IN a historical move on Tuesday, the National Assembly passed the Upgrading of Land Tenure Rights Amendment Bill.
The bill was necessitated by two orders of the Constitutional Court which found that the Upgrading of Land Tenure Rights Act (ULTRA), (1991) was, firstly, unconstitutional because it discriminated against the rights of women to independently own property and secondly, and that ULTRA’s Section 3 was inapplicable in the former apartheid homelands of Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Venda and Ciskei (formerly known as the TBVC states).
Parliamentary spokesperson Moloto Mothapo said Section 25(6) and (9) of the Constitution placed an obligation on Parliament to pass legislation that ensures that a person or community whose tenure is legally insecure as a result of past, racially discriminatory laws or practices, is entitled to either tenure that is legally secure or comparable redress.
Mothapo said the bill has now been referred to the Portfolio Committee
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