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Card image 29 January 2025 Mail & Guardian

Parliament postpones KZN visit to end friction between Zulu king, Ingonyama Trust Board

Tensions have risen between King MisuZulu and the ITB, and the land reform minister recently overturned the monarch’s attempt to dissolve the board

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09 January 2025 IOL

King Misuzulu declines urgent meeting with land Minister

Zulu King Misuzulu kaZwelithini has declined a meeting with Land Reform Minister Mzwanele Nyhontso, citing cultural seclusion until the upcoming Umkhosi wokweshwama ceremony.

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Card image 01 November 2024 PARI

Reflections on the Role of Traditional Authorities in Land Governance in 21st Century South Africa

We generate high-quality research to better understand the drivers of institutional performance in the public sector, and improve implementation of policies in relevant fields.

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Card image 30 October 2024 Werksmans

The effects of the CPA Amendment Act, 2017

and Elia Chitata - Candidate Attorney With the introduction of the Restitution of Land Rights Act 22 of 1994, which allowed both individuals and

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24 October 2024 Parliament RSA

Golden Gate Highlands National Park used for organised crime

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Card image 27 October 2024 Daily Maverick

Zulu king fumes about government ‘overreach’, wants less state oversight of Ingonyama Trust

As the sole trustee and chairperson of the trust, the king resents having to account for ‘his land’.

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18 October 2024 IOL

Private sector investment needed to boost SA’s land reform programme, says Vumelana

As a non-profit organisation founded to support land reform beneficiary communities, Vumelana believes that corporate social investment (CSI) can offer vital expertise, resources, and capacity to catalyse sustainable development and enhance the effectiveness of land reform post-settlement.

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Card image 13 October 2024 Sunday World

Land reform falters due to property association shambles

More than 1 300 communal property associations (CPAs) responsible for running farms and properties restituted to communities

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Card image 09 September 2024 SowetanLive

Securing rural tenure system can unlock economic growth

In July, there were media reports that some political players were clamouring for the reopening of the debate to amend the constitution to allow the expropriation of land without compensation.

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Card image 08 July 2024 Custom contested

It’s about people’s rights

By Nokwanda Sihlali Zulu King Misuzulu Sinqobile kaZwelithini invited amakhosi to an imbizo last month to discuss “the serious threats of survival of the Ingonyama Trust amid continued efforts to take away land under control of amakhosi, who hold this land in trust on behalf of the Zulu people”. The imbizo was held in Ulundi … Continue reading

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