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31 August 2021
Daily Maverick
The government has been lethargic in enacting policies that enable some form of equitable land redistribution in South Africa, while attempts at policy have been met with little success.
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30 August 2021
SABCNews
Legal expert, advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi says corruption is what is delaying land reform in the country and not the Constitution.
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27 August 2021
The Citizen
De Lille was sharing a platform with experts in a webinar on the role of women in land reform.
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24 August 2021
Mail & Guardian
Some 135 hectares is available to lease as part of the agricultural department’s efforts to free up more land.
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07 June 2021
BusinessTech
South Africa continues to face uncertainty around the issue of land expropriation without compensation, with clarity around the issue now only expected towards the end of the year.
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16 May 2021
Daily Maverick
Many were optimistic that the liberation struggle would lead to the nationalisation of land, but any radical intent was quelled with the adoption of a liberal Constitution in 1996, which entrenched property rights. The failure of existing land policies and land struggles are clearly illustrated by illegal land occupations, rising evictions, murders and violence on farms, and failed farm projects.
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07 May 2021
PoliticsWeb
DA calls for debate of national importance on the failure of land reform in South Africa
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20 April 2021
BusinessDay
Give the beneficiaries of land redistribution real rights to the land they occupy and protect these rights in law
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12 April 2021
BusinessDay
We cannot afford decline and regression in redistributing land, yet this seems to be where we are heading
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09 April 2021
BusinessTech
A draft copy of the new Land Court Bill has been published, detailing the government’s plans to establish a specialist Land Court as well as a Land Court of Appeal.
Land policy read moreNo restitution for the weary: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-09-21-no-restitution-for-the-weary-blaming-the-victim-is-an-easy-way-out-for-failure-to-deliver-the-promised-land/
BFAP reports low level of market concentration in SA agriculture. The bureau established that the level of market concentration in agriculture was 12%, making it, with financial services (also 12%), the least concentrated economic sector of all. https://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/research-group-reports-low-level-of-market-concentration-in-sa-agriculture-2021-09-21
WATCH | City of Cape Town evicts homeless in District Six during massive operation https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/watch-city-of-cape-town-evicts-homeless-in-district-six-during-massive-operation-20210920 via @news24
Committee for the homeless opens case against City following evictions near CPUT https://www.iol.co.za/capeargus/news/committee-for-the-homeless-opens-case-against-city-following-evictions-near-cput-b95aca8c-55ca-494b-af1a-65257b72a3ac
BUSINESS MAVERICK: South Africa’s ‘dangerous’ land policy under scrutiny in Fraser Institute report https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-09-20-south-africas-dangerous-land-policy-under-scrutiny-in-fraser-institute-report/
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