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28 December 2021
Daily Maverick
Our Burning Planet recently exposed how a community of 26,000 people on the western border of the Greater Kruger Conservancy, where the fence has fallen into serious disrepair, faces an eviction order from the government. But why do the authorities want them off the land? Onke Ngcuka unpacks the story in a Q&A with investigative journalist Kevin Bloom.
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06 January 2022
Bizcommunity
As frustration continues to mount about the sluggish pace of the land reform programme, it is instructive that we should place the land reform programme within the right historical and cultural context...
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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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The DRC and Ethiopia experienced the largest conflict
displacements in Africa. By the end of 2020, there were a little over 2 million new conflict displacements in
the Democratic Republic of the Congo and more than 1.6 million in Ethiopia.
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