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17 November 2021
Mail & Guardian
Land entity gets an unqualified audit but parliament remains unimpressed
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19 September 2021
Mail & Guardian
Groundbreaking judgments grant elderly black women access to land, which is crucial for self-determination.
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07 August 2021
IOL
Justice Minister Ronald Lamola tabled the bill early this year to ramp up the land reform programme
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05 August 2021
Daily Maverick
Vulnerable rural people in South Africa are being systematically dispossessed of their precariously held property rights. The past decade has seen a colossal battle between the courts and government over land reform and the property rights of the 18 million South Africans living in their former homeland areas.
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22 June 2021
The conversation
The judgment highlights the lack of interest by successive government ministers in curtailing the self-interested actions of rural elites.
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18 June 2021
PoliticsWeb
DA MP says she was prevented from conducting an oversight visit at DALRD offices
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11 June 2021
Daily Maverick
The High Court in Pietermaritzburg ruled on Friday that the Ingonyama Trust’s literal rent-seeking policy of forcing people to sign leases to live on their ancestral land was unlawful and ordered the trust to pay back the money. It’s a victory for good governance and a blow against one of feudalism’s lingering footholds in the 21st century.
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12 June 2021
SowetanLive
The court has ruled that all leases are now invalid and that minister Thoko Didiza, who “breached her duties”, reinstate the PTO policy and report back to the court every three months on progress.
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11 June 2021
IOL
The High Court in Pietermaritzburg ruled on Friday the lease agreement between the ITB and residents falling under its jurisdiction was illegal.
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13 June 2021
Daily Maverick
The judgment delivered on Friday 11 June, found that the Ingonyama Trust stripped people living on ancestral land of their customary rights.
Land governance and administration read moreSo Shell can come and destroy our environment along the Wild Coast instead
"It's clear... that it's becoming too much of a reputational liability for Shell"
Huge thanks to @StopCambo and all the activists who made this happen - public pressure works!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-59512742
I can think of no one better qualified to sit as Judge in the Constitutional Court. https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-12-02-geoff-budlender-a-raconteur-and-mensch-whose-work-in-human-rights-is-bigger-than-mount-kilimanjaro/
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