Paper Title
The Expropriation of Land in Without Compensation in South Africa: Lessons From Zimbabwe

Abstract
The land issue in South Africa, similar to that of Zimbabwe and Namibia has become a topical issue with widespread calls for the expropriation of land without compensation. These calls have been made in order to redress issues of the past and to redistribute land equitably amongst the majority of black South Africans who were previously disadvantaged as a result of the apartheid ideology. Although the issue of land redistribution is a novel idea and of necessity, there are great concerns with South Africa’s proposed expropriation of land without compensation as it violates the property clause in the Constitution. The purpose of this paper is therefore to critically look at the proposed land reform program in South Africa (taking land without compensation) and to critically outline the dangers associated with such a stance and to use Zimbabwe (which used the same system) as a case study of the dangers that associated with expropriation of land without compensation.