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28 December 2021
Temporais já haviam cortado comunicação das comunidades no meio de dezembro; chuvas do fim de ano pioraram o cenário e pelo menos 9 mil foram afetados
Lideranças indígenas ouvidas pela CNN relataram cenário de destruição em comunidades no Sul e no Oeste da Bahia após as chuvas que já deixaram 20…
15 December 2021
Gender equity is also key to land reform since women are under-represented and have not benefited from land reform in any meaningful manner. (Photo: newframe.com / Wikipedia)
By Farai Mtero, Katlego Ramantsima and Nkanyiso Gumede
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Policy gaps have provided…
14 December 2021
Aerial photo of mining on one of the beaches that is part of the extension of the Tormin Mining area just south of Brand se Baai. (Photo: Warren Witte)
By Julia Evans
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14 Dec 2021
While Shell’s seismic surveying has dominated headlines, the impact of mining on the West…
8 December 2021
Avec ou sans compensation, la question de la répartition divise et passionne les débats dans le pays.
Le projet de loi sur la réforme foncière chère au président sud-africain Cyril Ramaphosa, qui s’était engagé à corriger ce qui est considéré comme des injustices liées à la dépossession de terres…
7 December 2021
The National Assembly has failed to pass the Constitutional Amendment Bill to allow for expropriation of land without compensation.
On Tuesday, the ANC failed to convince parties and muster the two-thirds majority vote it needed to push the bill through.
Only 204 MPs voted in favour of the bill,…
7 December 2021
Bruce Whitfield gets comment from Associate Professor of Law Elmien Du Plessis (North West University).
Audio from the interview is available from Radio 702
It took three years to get to this point, but the National Assembly has rejected the ANC policy on the expropriation of land without…
7 December 2021
Almost four years’ of political manoeuvring to amend the Constitution to expressly provide compensationless expropriation ended with a whimper. But Tuesday’s debate brought out lowbrow political slander, with references to sell-outs, cowards, handlers and counter-revolutionaries across the floor of…
4 December 2021
A section of critically-endangered renosterveld damaged by illegal ploughing in South Africa’s Overberg region.
Conservationists in South Africa have developed a new app that will help them to monitor South Africa’s unique renosterveld landscapes using satellite images to detect when farmers…
2 December 2021
The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) research data service DataFirst is an internationally-certified African repository, having been awarded a CoreTrustSeal endorsement in 2018
DataFirst is a research data service dedicated to giving open access to data from South Africa and other African countries…
2 December 2021
(02.12.2021) The Land Portal Foundation is pleased to announce the publication of thirty-five new country portfolios as part of the Country Insights Initiative, which seeks to expand knowledge about how countries govern their land, the challenges they face, and the innovative solutions they…
2 December 2021
(02.12.2021) A Land Portal Foundation tem o prazer de anunciar a publicação de trinta e cinco novos portifólios de países como parte da Iniciativa de Conhecimento de Países, que busca expandir as informações sobre como governam suas terras, os desafios que enfrentam e as soluções inovadoras que…
2 December 2021
(02.12.2021) La Fundación Land Portal se complace en anunciar la publicación de treinta y cinco nuevos Portafolios de País (Country Profiles) como parte de la iniciativa Perspectivas de País (Country Insights), que busca ampliar el conocimiento sobre cómo se da el gobierno de la tierra en los…