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The NCOP will continue its work on the Expropriation Bill in February next year.
The passage of the Expropriation Bill hit a speedbump a day before it would have been put to a vote in the National Council of Provinces (NCOP).
Ever since it failed to pass the amendment to Section 25 of the Constitution, the governing ANC held up the Expropriation Bill as a panacea to its lagging land reform programme.
The bill was initially on the NCOP's order paper for a vote on Thursday. However, on Wednesday, the committee met to adopt the list of mandates from each province, but the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure's legal counsel raised a matter concerning a possible violation of the requirement that expropriation may not be arbitrary at the eleventh hour.
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