By: Sek Odom
Date: March 19th 2016
Source: Cambodia Daily
The Ministry of Justice on Friday announced two key changes to court policy related to land dispute cases as part of the government’s broader efforts to improve its handling of such disputes in the lead-up to the 2018 national election.
Date: March 21st 2016
Source: Odisha Samachar
Date: March 23rd 2016
Source: RT.com
Companies owned by foreigners face closure unless they sell or give up 51 percent of their shares to black Zimbabweans by April 1, announced Indigenization Minister Patrick Zhuwao.
“Comply by that date or close shop, comply by that date or face the full wrath of the law,” Bloomberg quotes Zhuwao, who is also President Robert Mugabe’s nephew.
By: Ruben Sario
Date: March 23rd 2016
Source: The Star
KOTA KINABALU: A festive atmosphere prevailed outside the Kota Kinabalu court complex here after a court initiated mediation resolved a Native Customary Rights (NCR) land dispute dating back 15 years.
By: Jacinta Bolsenbroek
Date: March 24th 2016
Source: Farm Weekly
THE Pastoral Lands Board (PLB) issue has become a public brawl, according to the Pastoralists and Graziers Association (PGA) president Tony Seabrook.
Date: March 24th 2016
Source: ENCA.com
JOHANNESURG: About 100,000 farm dwellers will know on Thursday if their land claims dating as far back as 2001 will finally be processed.
By: Eddie Cross
Date: March 21st 2016
Source: Politicsweb
Farm Compensation in Zimbabwe
On the 16th March 2016, the Minister of Finance in Zimbabwe tabled a memorandum in Parliament establishing a special Fund to raise and administer the payment of compensation to owners of land held in Zimbabwe under freehold tenure. The paper implied that compensation would be for four items:
1. The land itself;
By: Sally Andrews
Date: March 22nd 2016
Source: The Diplomat
By: Sek Odom and George Wright
Date: March 23rd 2016
Source: The Cambodia Daily
With the threat of eviction hanging over businesses on Sihanoukville’s O’Chheuteal and O’Tres beaches, land rights advocates congregated in Phnom Penh this week to give voice to thousands of families locked in land disputes with powerful firms turning swaths of coastline into tourism destinations.