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03 November 2022
PoliticsWeb
DA MP says this land continues to be held in trust, as it was through the apartheid era
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04 November 2022
Mail & Guardian
The former homelands and bantustans could offer opportunities to pursue activities that would curb poverty and unemployment
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01 November 2022
Cape Talk
Its been 28 years in post-apartheid South Africa and rural populations still do not own their homelands, areas that many have lived on for generations, according to DA data.
Land governance and administration read moreIn his first speech as the formally recognised Zulu king after receiving a certificate from President Cyril Ramaphosa in Durban on Saturday, the king announced he would use the trust to champion rural development.
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25 October 2022
Custom contested
by Ramabina Mahapa THE RECENT CORONATION OF Zulu King Misuzulu kaZwelithini was witnessed by people well beyond South Africa’s borders and widely welcomed by commentators. However, few reflected on what it might mean for rural residents living on land held under the Ingonyama Trust. The Ingonyama Trust was established in 1994 by what was then the … Continue reading
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06 October 2022
PoliticsWeb
Legislation demands very little of municipal councils as regards their interaction with traditional leaders
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02 October 2022
Daily Maverick
Farmers north of Durban have been in court to dispute the right of the AmaQadi clan to sell and allocate land the farmers say belongs to them. Some dwellers have built luxurious, palatial homes — including a three-star hotel — on the land. Now the court has ruled in favour of the farmers, ordering a halt to the sale or allocation of land by Inkosi Mqoqi Ngcobo.
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26 April 2022
The Citizen
The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) has upheld the Pietermaritzburg high court's ruling that the entity is not entitled to collect rent from rural dwellers.
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28 April 2022
Business Insider
The minister of agriculture and land reform will take direct control of technical aspects under the new Deed Registries Amendment Bill, relegating a current regulations board to advisors.
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24 August 2022
Custom Contested
By Nolundi Luwaya, Constance Mogale, Ruth Hall, Dineo Skosana, Wilmien Wicomb, Zenande Booi, Tshepo Fokane, Nokwanda Sihlali and Sienne Molepo Citizens of rural communities across the country who are fighting for their land rights are outraged at the government’s treatment of them, likening it to apartheid and colonialism. Violence, intimidation, assassinations and dispossession are continuing in … Continue reading
Land governance and administration read moreForcibly removed 60 years ago: Simon’s Town land claimants return https://www.groundup.org.za/article/forcibly-removed-60-years-ago-simons-town-land-claimants-return/
Botswana's Bushmen community has been the victim of forceful evictions and discriminatory harassment. https://www.fairplanet.org/story/the-forced-eviction-of-botswanas-indigenous-people/
Renewable energy worldwide is now cheaper per MWh than fossil fuels, especially in Africa given their favorable geographic situation. Much like the tobacco industry, when polluting and dangerous fossil fuels are pushed out of Europe & the US, they push their products on Africa.
Activist @BarigyeBob1 is yet to be released two days after being arrested for organising a debate on the environmental, human rights and economic impact of the controversial #EACOP. We demand his immediate release! See press statement ~> https://www.stopeacop.net/our-news/press-release-stopeacop-campaign-demand-for-the-release-of-activist-barigye-bob
A belt of thermal intolerance stretching across the whole of sub-Saharan Africa currently. 40C temperatures across many regions. Southern Africa also suffering. This at 1.3C. Adaptation to cope with heat can’t come quick enough to areas with no means to keep cool.
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