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10 January 2020
Farmer's Weekly
Two important pieces of draft legislation that will shape the way that land reform in South Africa will be implemented were published recently, and are currently open for public comment.
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11 January 2020
BusinessDay
President Cyril Ramaphosa said the ANC is gunning for expropriation without compensation because it wants to provide land to those who work it and need it, including young people and women.
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08 January 2020
Times Live
President Cyril Ramaphosa kicked off Wednesday's commemoration of the ANC’s 108th birthday by paying tribute to the first secretary-general of the organisation, Sol Plaatje
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04 January 2020
IOL
THE Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development Department wants politicians holding public office and civil servants ...
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21 December 2019
IOL
Land Affairs Minister Thoko Didiza said the work done by the presidential panel on land reform was helpful to the government ...
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20 December 2019
IOL
South Africa’s cabinet rejected proposals to limit the size of farms and to establish a dedicated fund in the nation’s land-reform process.
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20 December 2019
IOL
Cabinet has rejected a recommendation by the Presidential Advisory Panel on Land Reform and Agriculture for the creation of a Land Reform Fund.
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19 December 2019
News 24
The challenges of climate change "may merit the development of a new agrarian reform vision" for South Africa, Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development Minister Thoko Didiza has said.
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20 December 2019
Creamer Media's Engineering News
he challenges of climate change "may merit the development of a new agrarian reform vision" for South Africa, Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development Minister Thoko Didiza said on Thursday. She was elaborating on why the Cabinet had rejected some of the presidential panel on land reform's recommendations.
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20 December 2019
SowetanLive
Thoko Didiza briefed media on land reform and policies that have been adopted or rejected by government.
Land policy read moreWhy is South Africa’s renewable energy sector so politically outgunned? The answer begins a decade ago, in a $35bn wind and solar initiative proposed by our government at COP16... it ends where we expect it to end, in the kickass power of the coal lobby... https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-01-16-renewables-vs-coal-timeline-of-a-fatally-rigged-fight/
Perspectives on the Traditional and Khoisan Leadership Act: A (giant) step backwards for human rights in SA https://www.newframe.com/a-step-backwards-for-human-rights-in-sa/
There is a need to balance the manner in which land is acquired and used. The debate on #landexpropriation without compensation has somewhat reduced the land reform question to one of acquisition.
SA - The land bill is a curate’s egg and, right now, it’s a bit scrambled - by Simon Hull https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-01-16-the-land-bill-is-a-curates-egg-and-right-now-its-a-bit-scrambled/
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