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11 August 2014
Daily Maverick
What on earth is going on with our land reform process? Recently, South Africa has experienced another of its periodic spasms of concern about the ‘land question’ – this time brought about by the unveiling of a sheaf of controversial new legislation and proposals by the Minister of Land Reform and Rural Development (DRDLR 2014b). After a year or two of relative quiet, we at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies are once again besieged by journalists seeking comment from experts who can help them make sense of the new proposals. The experts, it has seemed, are as stumped as the rest of us – or even more so. By ANDRIES DU TOIT.
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The first water UN Water Conference in 40 years seeks to avert a global water crisis. But for farmers in Eastern Africa facing catastrophic food insecurity or pastoralists who have lost over eleven million animals since 2020, the crisis is already here.
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