One of the processes of the ad hoc committee was to seek advice and input from persons considered as experts either in the drafting of the Constitution in land reform and this is what they had to say: Mr Valli Moosa cautioned that in amending section 25, the committee take care not to dispossess those who have been dispossessed in the past. Black people now own property. The committee cannot cause uncertainty for these people and put them back in an era where they did not have security of tenure and could not own property.
Judge Sachs expressed concern at the apparent haste which the amendment is approached. He pointed out that providing for expropriation without compensation in the Constitution would be insufficient to address the failures of land reform. [Applause.]
Adv Trengrove stated that, although he was not of the opinion that the Constitution required an amendment as a matter of law, it might be a political imperative in order to restore the land balance; however, the