In South Africa, land reform is both a topical and a sensitive issue. The debates around land expropriation without compensation have certainly sparked more issues and concerns regarding land ownership, use and management. This is particularly problematic when it comes to land under traditional leaders. The country's land reform programme has been very slow and locals are clearly becoming impatient. As a result, calls for expropriation of land without compensation have been proposed by many sectors of South African society. These clamour, however, do not go unchallenged, as antagonists to land expropriation without compensation raise a range of issues and possible challenges that may arise from a historic expropriation without compensation. The main focus of this article is to interrogate the emerging realities, prospects and challenges of expropriating land without compensation. In addition, the study examines the issue of tenur