Johnathan Paoli
Democratic Alliance (DA) member of the Land Reform and Rural Development Portfolio Committee, Mlindi Nhanha has hit back against the recent Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) declaration of considering changing the constitution in order to facilitate land reform.
Nhanha said on Monday that following reports quoting Minister of Land Reform, Mzwanele Nyontso, who declared his willingness to re-open attempts to amend the constitution to allow expropriation without compensation; he would remain against comments which he found counterproductive and contrary to the spirit of the Statement of Intent (SOI) which underpinned the Government of National Unity (GNU).
“The DA is committed to defend the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights in its entirety,” he said.
Nhanha said parliament already rejected proposals to amend section 25 of the constitution and that any attempt to re-open this matter would result in “economic instability”.
He said that any claim that s25 is a barrier
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