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OPINION | Government, banks must come clean about expropriation debts

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More clarity is needed around what happens to someone's bill when their property is expropriated writes the author.
More clarity is needed around what happens to someone's bill when their property is expropriated writes the author.
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It is incumbent on the state and South Africa’s financial institutions to declare their positions unambiguously on the matter of expropriation debt, like what happens to someone's bond when a property is claimed, writes Terence Corrigan.

It’s one thing to hold a big, wide-angle, noisy view on something that is distant and conceptual. It’s often quite another to take that view on something specific, imminent and concrete.

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