Valuer general of South Africa; rights, responsibilities and land reform
Ruel Williamson,
FRICS
The South African Property Valuation Act, 17 of 2014 provides for the establishment, functions and powers of the Office of the Valuer-General. This is an outgrowth of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa that provides for the protection of property, expropriation of property for public purposes or in the public interest where said expropriation of property is subject to equitable compensation by the government. The government is also to take reasonable legislative and other measures that it has the rights and resources for in order to foster conditions to facilitate land reform and restitution of land by which a person or community was dispossessed as a result of past discriminatory laws or practices. The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa also stipulates that no provision of section 25 may impede the State from taking legislative and other measures to achieve land, water and related reform in order to redress the results of past discrimination.
Event: Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty 2019
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