The ANC has decided to change the Constitution to expropriate land without compensation.

President Cyril Ramaphosa announced this decision at the end of the national executive committee's two-day lekgotla held in Irene, outside Pretoria.

Speaking in a late-night message on Tuesday‚ Ramaphosa said this was prompted by the nationwide hearings on the proposal‚ which have been going on for the last three weeks.

However‚ Ramaphosa also admitted that Section 25 as it currently stood did allow for "expropriation of land without compensation in the public interest".

Said Ramaphosa: “It has become patently clear that our people want the Constitution to be more explicit about expropriation of land without compensation‚ as demonstrated in the public hearings.