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17 February 2021
LARC
By Clive Ndou King Goodwill Zwelithini says he will not intervene at the troubled Ingonyama Trust unless he is approached by Rural Development Minister Thoko Didiza. He is the sole trustee.
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02 February 2021
Parliament South Africa
The Bill of Rights guarantees freedom of expression, as long as this freedom is not used as propaganda for war, incitement to violence or the advocacy of hatred based on race, ethnicity, gender or religion.
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04 February 2021
Daily Maverick
Rural South Africans are being systematically stripped of the few residual assets they managed to hold on to despite apartheid. Members of Parliament are about to create a parallel and separate legal system that denies 18 million people the right to access South Africa’s mainstream court system.
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26 January 2021
The Citizen
The Red Berets have called for Thoko Didiza to step down from her position, citing incompetence following failure to submit her department’s annual performance report to Parliament.
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18 January 2021
Mail & Guardian
By Paddy Harper The process of appointing a new, permanent Ingonyama Trust Board (ITB) — and an investigation into the land administration entity’s finances — has still not been concluded, despite the 1 January deadline set by Land Reform Minister Thoko Didiza. But, says her spokesperson, Reggie Ngcobo, the two processes remain on track and should be wrapped up … Continue reading
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12 January 2021
IOL
Former Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development Department CFO Jacob Hlatshwayo is being probed for alleged corruption, malpractice and maladministration over the awarding of a PPE contract.
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23 December 2020
All Africa
South African women's land rights activist Sizani Ngubane has died, according to the Rural Women's Movement (RWM) - an organisation of which she was the director and founder.
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12 December 2020
Mail & Guardian
Customary law and residents’ customary rights have been degraded, the high court has heard
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09 December 2020
AllAfrica
Lawyers say rural residents unable to pay a new rental fee for their ancestral land face the risk of evictions
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08 December 2020
Daily Maverick
Rural residents who have been asked to sign away their customary rights to land held in trust for them by the Ingonyama Trust are hoping that they will finally get answers from a case in the Pietermaritzburg High Court.
Land governance and administration read moreWEBINAR: Is the Expropriation Bill an effective tool for transformation?
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Norway’s $1.3trn wealth fund blacklisted companies for ethical misconduct - including Sasol, Glencore - http://BizNews.com https://www.biznews.com/briefs/2021/02/25/norway-sasol-glencore#.YDsyvhyYvRM.twitter via @biznewsCOM
"Hunger is largely due to poverty and inequality, not scarcity. The decades-long “green revolution” push for industrial agriculture in India has left a harsh legacy of harm for both the ecosystem and smallholder farmers" @USRightToKnow https://usrtk.org/our-investigations/gates-foundations-plans-to-remake-food-systems-will-hurt-the-climate/
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Losing practices, relationships and agency: ecological deskilling as a consequence of the uptake of modern seed varieties among South African Smallholders https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/F3EMVNPCX3BFUQKM2ZRT/full?target=10.1080%2F21683565.2021.1888841#.YDi0y76Szyw.twitter
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