Grain SA may challenge land policy

“If there is expropriation taking place without proper compensation then we would go to the Constitutional Court to get a ruling on that,” says Grain SA’s Jannie de Villiers.

Bothaville - South Africa's largest grain producers' group may challenge government efforts to expropriate land for redistribution to blacks if the compensation offered falls below market prices, its chief executive said on Tuesday.

“If there is expropriation taking place without proper compensation then we would go to the Constitutional Court to get a ruling on that,” Jannie de Villiers, the chief executive of Grain SA, told Reuters in an interview.

The ruling African National Congress has brought an expropriation bill to Parliament to let the state make compulsory purchases of land to redress racial disparities in land ownership.

The bill has yet to be passed into law.

REUTERS