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27 February 2018
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa took a step on Tuesday to hasten the transfer of land from white to black owners when parliament backed a motion seeking to change the constitution to allow land expropriation without compensation.
The ruling African National Congress has long promised reforms to…
9 January 2018
The debate about expropriation raises the critical issue of who should benefit from land reform, and Sthandiwe Yeni - national coordinator of Tshintsha Amakaya - opined a call by farm dwellers to change the current pattern of an elite few benefiting while the vulnerable majority remain ignored and…
22 December 2017
Date: 21 décembre 2017
Source: Agence Ecofin
Le congrès électif de l’African National Congress (ANC) qui s’est achevé, ce 20 décembre 2017, à Johannesburg, ne s’est pas borné à porter Cyril Ramaphosa (photo) à la tête du parti au pouvoir en Afrique du Sud. Il a également permis d’entériner une…
11 December 2017
Johannesburg – The Constitutional Court ruled on Monday that a black community holds a right to certain portions of the Salem Commonage in the Eastern Cape and was dispossessed of the land due to past racially discriminatory practices.
According to the judgment, penned by Justice Edwin Cameron and…
27 November 2017
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9 October 2017
Mining companies have faced community protests and threats to shut operations, but many residents believe only tribal leaders are benefiting
MOGALAKWENA, South Africa, Oct 8 (Reuters) - A new power struggle is unfolding in South Africa’s old homelands between global mining giants, traditional…
7 September 2017
JOHANNESBURG — Land reform is a hot political tool in Southern Africa and the likes of the ANC and EFF are well aware of this. Promises around expropriation without compensation have been ratcheted up particularly by the ANC as it continues to stumble onpoor service delivery woes. But even if the…
3 September 2017
If we are to address poverty in rural South Africa, we must prioritise good governance practices among communal property institutions in order to ensure that beneficiaries of the land reform programme begin to drive job creation and play their part towards poverty alleviation.
While land reform…
29 August 2017
Last month, the South African Independent Electoral Commission announced in frustration that it needs USD 22.9 million to collect addresses ahead of a court-mandated deadline, a problem compounded by the fact that most townships don’t have well-marked street names.
Elsewhere, this problem is even…
28 August 2017
Whilst rural areas are dynamic and vibrant communities, they are chronically under-invested in. Poverty rates tend to be at least double than that of urban centres. Subsistence farming and small-scale farming is key to achieving sustainable development and a key source of livelihood for most of…
24 August 2017
Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini has launched a blistering attack on recipients of government’s land restitution farms‚ saying they failed to use the land for producing food — and instead used it to build houses to generate profit.
During a speech to KwaZulu-Natal school principals in Ulundi this…
7 August 2017
More than 18-million hectares have been transferred or financially compensated for, says nonprofit research body
SA is much closer to its target of transferring at least 30% of agricultural land from white to black ownership, albeit three years after the initial deadline.
A report by the Bureau for…