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22 October 2020
IOL
The economy has not been performing well in recent times despite promises by government to get it back on track.
Land policy read moreMourners, including minister Thoko Didiza and leader farmers, said their last goodbyes to the late Afasa president Dr Vuyo Mahlati.
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20 October 2020
IOL
She died last week aged 55 and was involved in myriad causes
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14 October 2020
Daily Maverick
Government can set up thousands of farmers in very little time by capping transferred farmland to plots of 10ha-20ha and giving a cash grant for the building farmhouses and buying inputs and implements. With 700,000ha, you can set up 35,000 new farmers if each one gets 20ha, or 70,000 if each gets 10ha.
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13 October 2020
News 24
Many have expressed shock at the death of African Farmers' Association of South Africa president Dr Vuyo Mahlati.
Land policy read moreBREAKING: Food For Mzansi can confirm that AFASA president and farmer Dr Vuyo Mahlati has died. Mahlati served on pres. Cyril Ramaphosa's land reform panel.
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09 October 2020
Daily Maverick
The agricultural sector has grown this year, but an absence of collateral is preventing black farmers from making a go of their business
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09 October 2020
Mail & Guardian
On the back of the announcement that the government would allocate more land to be leased by emerging farmers, President Cyril Ramaphosa says that beneficiaries will also be trained in financial management and enterprise development
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09 October 2020
Daily Maverick
The Democratic Alliance has consistently called on government to release unused or underused state land for land reform. However, a key word in land reform is ‘own’. Land reform will only be successful if it changes patterns of land ownership.
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05 October 2020
SANews
Transforming patterns of agricultural land ownership is vital not just to address the historical injustices of the past, but to safeguard the nation’s food security, says President Cyril Ramaphosa.
Land policy read moreBeen both furious and broken for the last 18 hours.
Ma Ntshangase was an absolute force in person, overflowing with warmth, good humour, and a burning desire to hold the Tendele coal mine for its innumerable injustices to her and her Somkhele community.
Background --> https://twitter.com/GroundUp_News/status/1319609779501891584
Fikile Ntshangase opposed a mine extension. Last night she was murdered http://www.groundup.org.za/article/mining-activist-murdered-kzn/ @CentreEnvRights @EnvironmentMinister
Even after 19 bullets were fired into Ms Mthethwa's home, she refused to make way for coal mining without fair compensation.
Tendele mine went to court to seek approval for their inadequate proposals. Unsuccessfully.
Yesterday, Ms Ntshangase - a crucial activist - was murdered. https://twitter.com/JohanLorenzen/status/1274667339640963072
Our remarkable clients resisting Tendele Mine recently scored a win.
Possibly provisional.
But a win nonetheless.
I tried to capture the moment, their bravery, and the host of kind, generous and brilliant people who made it happen, on FB.
Link here:
https://www.facebook.com/johan.lorenzen/posts/10100326373601675
Runaway fires burning since Sunday have destroyed embattled farming areas in Hertzogville, Hoopstad, Bulfontein and Dealesville in the Free State, and in the Frances Baard District near Warrenton in the Northern Cape.
https://citizen.co.za/multimedia/2373889/video-governments-silence-on-fs-nc-fires-failing-farmers-once-again-says-union/#.X5LAQTCP3J0.twitter via @TheCitizen_News
Land occupiers tear down ‘unoccupied’ shacks in overcrowded informal settlement “We have all invaded this land and no one has the right to destroy another invader’s shack,” https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2020-10-19-land-occupiers-tear-down-unoccupied-shacks-in-overcrowded-informal-settlement/ via @TimesLIVE
The government has been engaging with investors to clarify why land reform is needed, emphasized that there won’t be wholesale gazetting of land for seizure and designated the courts to be the final arbiters in any disputes, https://businesstech.co.za/news/government/442208/south-africa-moves-to-soothe-investor-fears-over-land-grabs/ via @businesstechSA
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