Advocate Ngwako Maenetje, for President Cyril Ramaphosa, has told legal representatives challenging aspects of the Expropriation Act not to use the dictionary to interpret aspects of the constitution. Expropriation Act: ‘Compensation can’t be zero’Advocate Mark Oppenheimer argued that every word of the constitution has to be taken into consideration when reading it. He said the Expropriation Act cannot interpret the word compensation differently from the constitution. In its current state, section 12(3) of the Expropriation Act alters the just and equitable standard, argued Perumalsamy. It’s only just and equitable compensation; it’s not recompense for what you lost; sometimes it may be, sometimes it may be less, because it is just and equitable compensation.”