Taxpayers cough up R65 million on vacant state-owned properties

The Public Works and Infrastructure Department is paying R65 million on vacant state properties while losing R83 million in potential revenue.

South Africa is making progress with its land reform

In 1994, total farm land with title deeds (thus outside what the apartheid government set aside for black people) covered 77.58 million hectares of the total surface area of South Africa of 122 million hectares. It is assumed, merely by the fact that black ownership of farm land in South Africa was

The state of land reform in South Africa

The issue of land reform was mentioned as a positive development in the State of the Nation Address in February 2024, when President Cyril Ramaphosa indicated that the 30% target set for agricultural land transferred to black South Africans by 2030 was already approaching 25%.

The struggle is real: SA’s rural women fight for land justice

On International Day of Rural Women, we spotlight the ongoing struggle for land and housing access faced by South African

Women’s Land Rights in Farming Need Further Recognition

EFF election manifesto – Fact-checking four big claims on land, wealth, crime and sanitation in South Africa

Africa Check set out to fact-check the claims in the document and, despite challenges, we were able to verify the following.

After the Bell: The depressing illogic of the EFF election manifesto

How is it possible that the EFF’s economic platform can be so impervious to systems now widely accepted by almost every country on planet Earth, including countries with avowedly communist governments like China and Vietnam?

Ramaphosa moves the ground reality

So among the usual chatter, pres. Ramaphosa made a ground-breaking

The South African government has been buying farmland for black farmers. It’s not gone well

The government’s approach to redistributing farmland has been mostly ineffective. Failure can be attributed to limited implementation, poor institutional capacity and corruption.

Inside look at KZN farm run by Health Minister Zweli Mkhize’s son, Dedani

Dedani Mabhunu Mkhize, the son of the embattled health minister accused of illegally benefiting from an allegedly corrupt tender, runs a flourishing farm in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands.