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24 July 2018
Daily Maverick
Four weeks. Six out of nine provinces. The public hearings juggernaut over whether there should be a constitutional amendment for expropriation without compensation pushes on. There’s a deadline in two months’ time, on 28 September 2018, but that’s only for a yea or nay on such compensationless expropriation. If it’s yea, there are further processes that must unfold.
Expropriation, Land policy read moreIt is not just the government that has failed. Mining companies have usurped land belonging to rural communities without due regard for their property rights. @LandRightsNow @KnowledgebaseL @PresidencyZA
@Newzroom40 https://www.plaas.org.za/communcal-land-tenure-consultations/
It is not enough to simply open up data. “Publish and they will come” does not work. Data needs to be used and serve a specific purpose. @naticarfi #OpenGovWeek #LandModule
@opendatacharter @databarometer @opengovpart https://landportal.org/library/resources/open-guide-land-governance-version-20-following-public-comments
"[BR]OTHER is a visual record of the #xenophobic violence that has swept through South Africa over the past decade. In documenting these events, the book aims to raise #awareness of the dangers that lie in #discrimination and indifference" https://www.brotherbook.co.za/
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