The draft constitutional amendment bill (the Bill) allowing land expropriation without compensation (EWC) is already damaging enough to make South Africa largely uninvestable. The Ad Hoc Committee (the Committee) responsible for drafting the Bill is nevertheless considering amending it – and making it very much worse – in three crucial ways. In particular, the Bill might be changed to: limit the role of the courts in deciding on ‘nil’ compensation; extend the ‘nil’ compensation provisions from land to property of all kinds; and make the state the custodian of all land, as the EFF continues to demand. Such changes are potentially momentous. Yet how much public participation will be allowed on these further changes remains unclear.