24 November 2021
Bereng Mpaki writing in the Lesotho Times provides background on the Mines and Minerals Amendment Bill which seeks to legalise artisanal and small scale mining. This had previously been outlawed by the Mines and Minerals Act, 2005. According to the the Chairperson of the Parliamentary Natural…
11 November 2021
The issue of land, especially its redistribution, remains contentious in South Africa 27 years after the formal end of apartheid. Land redistribution was promised at the end of apartheid. The failure of the African National Congress (ANC) government to do so is emblematic of its failure to…
29 August 2021
Community leader Nkosinathi Buthelezi said the COVID-19 pandemic had hit the Waterworks informal settlement near Lenasia hard.
Value: $21,000,000.00
Donors: United States Agency for International Development
Value: $11,850,000.00
Donors: German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
Value: $300,000.00
Donors: International Fund for Agricultural Development
Lesotho has seen a rapid urbanisation with the quadrupling of its urban population between 1976 and 2006
6 August 2021
By Sean Johnson, land administration specialist at COWI, Swaziland * This piece was originally published as part of the online discussion on customary law in Southern Africa Institutions – societal behaviour, norms, rules, laws, and structures – emerge, develop, and are shaped by the interaction of…
