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Making headlines: Mixed reactions to Expropriation Bill, with threats of legal action; Cape Town mayor believes GNU will stand firm until Ramaphosa’s departure; And, Comoros president says he intends to hand power to his son

Mixed reactions to Expropriation Bill, with threats of legal action

Opposition parties and civil society organisations have rejected President Cyril Ramaphosa's signing into law of the Expropriation Bill, while the African National Congress has supported the move, calling it a significant milestone in the country’s transformation agenda.

Ramaphosa on Thursday signed into law the Bill, which repeals the pre-democratic Expropriation Act of 1975 and sets out how State institutions may expropriate land in the public interest.

ActionSA parliamentary chief whip Lerato Ngobeni said her party was considering legal action in response to Ramaphosa's enactment of the Expropriation Bill.

The Democratic Alliance strongly reiterated its opposition to the Expropriation Bill, pointing out that it was in discussions with its legal team to formulate a case.

The uMkhonto weSizwe Party said it “categorically” rejected the law and its attempts to “sanitise the theft of African’s land”, announcing that it would be submitting a private member's Bill that sought to amend Section 25 of the Constitution.

The EFF said they will soon table a new set of legislative proposals in Parliament to resolve the land crisis in this country.

Cape Town mayor believes GNU will stand firm until Ramaphosa’s departure

City of Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis says his gut tells him that the Government of National Unity will survive at least the next two years.

Addressing the Cape Town Press Club this week, he said he was, however, unwilling to make any firm predictions on the future of the GNU beyond the end-of-year ANC elective conference in 2027, which was highly likely to see President Cyril Ramaphosa’s departure as party leader.

This could lead to the ascension of what Hill-Lewis’s party – the DA, currently a GNU member – views as a militant anti-GNU faction in the ANC.

And, Comoros president says he intends to hand power to his son

Comoros President Azali Assoumani has for the first time said publicly he intends to hand power to his son Nour El Fath when he leaves office in 2029, confirming critics' accusations that he has long been grooming his son to take over.

Assoumani, whose re-election a year ago was tainted by allegations of voter fraud, put El Fath in charge of coordinating government affairs and granted him sweeping powers over the cabinet.

El Fath did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment but has previously said Comoros, a group of three islands in the Indian Ocean off East Africa, is not a monarchy.

Assoumani's ruling party decisively won parliamentary elections this month, although opposition parties either boycotted the vote or rejected the results, claiming fraud.

That’s a roundup of news making headlines today

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