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City threatens to evict people who have already been evicted
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‘Resilience’, like so many other terms used in the environmental debate, has been mainstreamed, misused and co-opted to varying degrees in different contexts. ‘Transformative resilience’ allows us ...
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Temporary housing structures in Delft up for rent as fed up occupants return to shacks
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Makhanda communities have had water shedding and cuts for over a year now
19 May 2022
Daily Maverick
The impoverished locals – who blame mining for the loss of arable land and destruction of the rural agrarian economy – want the Twickenham mine to open or forfeit mining rights.
Land rights and mining read more
20 May 2022
GroundUp
An informal settlement has grown near Lansdowne station. People in houses nearby want it moved; people in the settlement say they have nowhere to go
Urban land read more
23 May 2022
Club of Mozambique
Initiative to benefit 20 million African farmers, who will receive certified seed and technology to rapidly produce 38 million tons of food. The African Development Bank Group's Board of Directors on Friday approved a $1.5 billion facility to help African countries avert a looming food crisis.
Africa Land News read more
05 May 2022
Daily Maverick
Government should abandon the policy of land restitution because it is not economically or politically feasible, and rather go back to redistribution.
Redistribution read more
19 May 2022
Daily Maverick
Developing land tenure legislation is a difficult job to get right — especially given the legacy of intractable problems inherited from apartheid. The Gauteng consultation did not seem genuine: it lasted only three hours.
Tenure reform read more
19 May 2022
Daily Maverick
In less than a month, Nelson Mandela Bay will become the first South African metro to run out of water. In an appeal and warning that is almost unimaginable, the metro’s water chief has called for prayers as the disaster moves closer, confirming that water for drinking, washing, flushing toilets and fighting fires will be severely limited. He further cautioned that drinking water may be unsafe and called on people to pray for rain.
Urban land read more
19 May 2022
GroundUp
Residents say large families are cramped into small shacks at Zamimpilo informal settlement in Khayelitsha. But the City says they are unlawfully occupying land that is earmarked for development.
Urban land read more
16 May 2022
The Conversation
Land reform had not been held back by the constitution but by capacity constraints and a lack of political will.
Land policy read more
19 May 2022
IOL
While Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development Thoko Didiza has welcomed the recent signing of the first Agriculture and Agro-processing Master Plan (AAMP), there have been mixed reactions from farming groups.
Food security read more
19 May 2022
Daily Maverick
This is what it looks like when unregulated, illegal mining meets governance failure – a fire in a coal mine that has been burning for weeks, leaving nearby communities choking in the fumes. Perhaps most worryingly, nobody knows the extent to which fires may be burning underground.
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The DRC and Ethiopia experienced the largest conflict
displacements in Africa. By the end of 2020, there were a little over 2 million new conflict displacements in
the Democratic Republic of the Congo and more than 1.6 million in Ethiopia.
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