Land News Digest: South, Southern and Central Africa

We are the trusted news and resource hub for anyone with an interest in rural and urban land issues in South Africa and the subcontinent. We focus on environmental rights, land policy and law and the impacts of climate change and mining.

Push for change to eviction laws as SA...

Activists have warned the Department of Human Settlements against the impact eviction law changes could have on the country’s most vulnerable.

20 November 2024 Daily Maverick read more

COP29 — loss and damage funding for climate-vulnerable...

Support for financing loss and damage isn’t keeping pace with climate impacts in vulnerable countries.

21 November 2024 Daily Maverick read more

Bring enablers of property corruption to book

CSO Open Secrets recently released a report titled For Sale: South Africa’s Property Laundromat, which details how luxury real estate in South Africa has become a haven for laundering funds linked ...

21 November 2024 Corruption watch read more

Stilfontein’s dangerous and desperate illegal mining industry

Zama zamas search for gold in a vast and unmapped underground network of tunnels

19 November 2024 GroundUp read more

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THE CONSTITUTION

Land and the Constitution

Section 25 of the Constitution sets out the balance that must be struck in protecting property rights and enabling equitable access to land, advancing land and water reform, ensuring security of tenure where people’s land rights are unrecorded or vulnerable in law and restoring rights lost through dispossession and forced removals. Section 25(1) – Section 25(4) set out core property rights. At the same time it is important to...

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