THE ANC Women’s League is demanding that whatever is done with the land expropriation bill, South African women should be the greatest beneficiaries of the process.
This is contained in the women’s league written submission to Parliament’s portfolio committee and infrastructure on land expropriation bill.
Public comments for the bill closed on Friday.
The controversial Land Expropriation Bill is intended to replace the old Expropriation Act of 1975, which is not in line with the Constitution.
The bill seeks to amend Section 25 of the Constitution in order to provide for expropriation of land without compensation.
In its submission to Parliament, ANCWL said it wanted to ensure that the bill benefited women, especially those in rural communities.
“Women of this country have for a long time been subjugated and stayed without land. The historical dispossession of the majority South African people has been more severe on women because they still
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