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13 June 2021
IOL
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.
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23 May 2021
IOL
Human rights lawyer, political activist and author Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi has released his second book Land Matters, which explores South Africa’s failed land reforms and the road ahead.
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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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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.
A project of Phuhlisani NPC supported by Absa. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike. International License.
