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26 March 2021
The Citizen
Is the government capable of running land reform? Many experts think it's fallen prey to corruption and cadre deployment.
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12 March 2021
SANews
Ever since its inception, the land reform programme has been impactful in breaking down the patterns of land ownership and since its inception, government has managed to acquire five million hectares of land.
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10 November 2020
IOL
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development Minister Thoko Didiza is clamping down on corrupt officials who are allegedly evicting emerging farmers and taking bribes from them.
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07 October 2020
BusinessDay
Land redistributed through the plan would remain in the hands of the state — as it does now — for three decades
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28 September 2020
Daily Maverick
In spite of the Constitution’s promise, post-apartheid policy and legislation have generally endorsed apartheid legacies of economic and social exclusion, resulting in deep economic inequalities, social discontent, and at times violent manifestations of frustration by community members.
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27 September 2020
DispatchLive
In September we witness how our citizens, more than any other time of the year, declare how “proudly South African” they are because it is Heritage Month
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15 September 2020
Daily Maverick
This radical critique of established precolonial and colonial history retells the story of dispossession, the destruction of livelihoods and the brutality of slavery in South Africa. Characters such as Autshumao, Krotoa and Doman come to life in the story of the founding of a port at Cape Town. Mellet debunks the ‘empty land’ myth and claims of a ‘Bantu invasion’, while outlining more than 220 years of war and resistance. ‘The Lie of 1652’ is published by Tafelberg.
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19 July 2020
IOL
Cape Town’s property market could be heading for a downward spiral if the national government fails to open the title deeds office.
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19 January 2020
BusinessDay
The government wants David Rakgase to pay a price that is allegedly nine times what the court ordered
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15 January 2020
City Press
Once again, traditional leadership in South Africa is being tested as the proposed legislation seeks to perpetuate rural dwellers’ insecurity of land rights.
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Western Cape inclusionary housing policy framework open for comment https://www.westerncape.gov.za/eadp/news/western-cape-inclusionary-housing-policy-framework-open-comment
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One of the few national bodies still holding our government to account http://disq.us/t/3wvsc2d
If we are looking for the intersection of opportunism and desperation this has to be it.
“Those selling the land of the dead are greedy for money, We grew up knowing that we must respect the dead".
https://www.groundup.org.za/article/graves-desecrated-for-housing-in-pietermaritzburg/
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