Economic and legal implications of state custodianship of land

[{“type”:”text”,”content”:”The experts who participated were professors Johann Kirsten and Robert Vivian, as well as advocate Johan de Waal. nn* Johan Kirsten has been involved in land reform for decades and has written extensively on the subject and gave his perspectives on progress with land reform; n* Johan de Waal, a senior advocate from the Cape Bar, gave an overview of the legal framework and some legal perspectives on custodianship;n* Robert Vivian, a professor of finance and insurance and also a board member of the Free Market Foundation, contrasted the outcomes of the free market with the proposed amendment of section 25 and talked about the essential role of property rights in a free market and forms of state ownership that are akin to custodianship and the Khaya Lam project of the FMF.nnAnnelize Crosby sketched the background to the section 25 amendment and the insertion of the concept of state custodianship into the constitutional amendment bill. She stated that the constitutional review process effectively started in February 2018, when the EFF proposed a motion in parliament for section 25 of the constitution to be amended to provide for expropriation without compensation. This was incidentally the second time that the EFF had brought such a motion. The previous time there was no support for it from other parties.”,”position”:0,”id”:”GiWJLNKlIXxWluak”}]