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If you want information from the Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries about the policies and activities it undertakes, it will stretch your patience and sanity to a snapping point. But...
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The government says a more than two-decade wait for compensation by families forced to make way for the construction of a multimillion-rand dam will be over in March.
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The intergovernmental coalition for biodiversity wants to bring South Africa into its ranks. The membership of one of the 17 countries with the highest biodiversity in Africa would be crucial to th...
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We have to stop what we’re doing and find a new path to sustainability for people, wildlife and the planet. But this is far from simple. And any attempt will be doomed unless we can find a lasting ...
24 February 2021
Afrik21
The Global Alliance for Circular Economy and Resource Efficiency (GACERE) has just been launched by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the European Commission to give global leadership to initiatives related to the transition to the circular economy and resource efficiency. This new alliance will support the African continent in its much-needed transition to the circular economy, sustainable development and the preservation of natural resources.
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17 February 2021
LARC
By Clive Ndou King Goodwill Zwelithini says he will not intervene at the troubled Ingonyama Trust unless he is approached by Rural Development Minister Thoko Didiza. He is the sole trustee.
Land governance and administration read more
25 February 2021
LARC
By Nolundi Luwaya In less than a week parliament will decide whether to confirm the Traditional Courts Bill (TCB), which has been at the centre of an almost 20-year struggle for legislation that is…
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25 February 2021
GroundUp
Factory workers demand action against farmer
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17 February 2021
Daily Monitor
A section of residents of Biharwe in Mbarara North City Division on Monday staged a demonstration over delayed compensation for their property, mainly land, by Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Ltd (UETCL) that is planning to construct a 400 KV line through the area.
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25 February 2021
AllAfrica
The new registration system for land in Nairobi is expected to ease transactions, but experts have urged vigilance so that fraudsters don't exploit the process to legitimise illegally acquired property.
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22 February 2021
Daily Maverick
What began as a hyperlocal movement to protect the interests of emerging and commercial farmers, farmworkers and informal settlement residents in Cape Town’s Philippi Horticultural Area has become a much bigger campaign.
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21 February 2021
PoliticsWeb
DA calls for independent probe into Darling farm eviction
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22 February 2021
UN News
The Italian ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a World Food Programme (WFP) staff member, together with an Italian embassy official, were killed on Monday during an attack on a UN convoy in the east of the country, the agency has said.
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21 February 2021
IOL
Criminal syndicates are taking advantage of the moratorium on evictions during lockdown and are selling vacant plots illegally. As a result, there has been a surge in the number of informal settlements sprouting in Gauteng.
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“Seedlings sales took a knock when farmers stopped buying in response to their markets drying up during the hard lockdown, despite this a counter trend increased seedlings sales at local households...”-Philani Ngcobo, a small-scale farmer from Ndwedwe,
https://afra.co.za/2021/02/25/impact-of-covid-19-lockdown-on-small-scale-farmer-and-agro-processor-philani-ngcobo/
What is tragic is that communities receive land they were violently removed from by the racist regime, but the land is transferred into entities that are structured in a way that almost guarantees failure.
Government can and must do so much better for land claimants. https://twitter.com/richard_spoor/status/1364886230790508547
Looking at the books of a large restitution trust. It owes SARS R125 million and can’t pay. Between them, all the entities that own restituted land likely owe SARS, Eskom, water boards and local municipalities several billion rand.
Sustainability is not a big thing in the DRDLR.
EU launches Global Alliance on Circular Economy and Resource Efficiency https://europa.eu/!tw39Nf via @EU_Commission
The pandemic led to governments across the world imposing a myriad of barriers on their citizens to control the spread of C-19 within their borders. Ghana was no exception. This article explains how Ghana's food system was affected.
#AfricanFoodSystems
https://www.plaas.org.za/the-ravages-of-covid-19-measures-in-ghana/
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