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26 September 2020
IOL
The Department of Justice and Correctional Services is mooting a new law that will result in the reconfiguration of the Land Claims Court.
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20 April 2020
PoliticsWeb
DA calls for farmers to receive essential service permits directly from Department of Agriculture
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12 February 2020
Daily Maverick
As Parliament’s ad hoc committee to amend the Constitution’s Section 25 gears up for public hearings on compensationless expropriation, insecurity hangs over ownership rights in townships and former bantustans. A failure to timeously amend legislation as the Constitutional Court ordered, now needs a last-minute dash to fix the uncertainty. It shows the complexities of land beyond the rhetoric.
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29 January 2020
Moneyweb
'This will make a difference in terms of women's land and property inheritance,'
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04 September 2019
Times Live
Former president Kgalema Motlanthe has accused parliament of failing to give effect to section 25 of the constitution by passing laws to ensure equitable redistribution of land.
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20 August 2019
Daily Maverick
South Africa’s labour laws have been weaponised against people of integrity to facilitate corruption and State Capture.
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14 August 2019
Creamer's Engineering News
The future of the South African agricultural sector is dependent on the country and industry making the right policy and investment choices. So cautioned Bureau for Food and Agricultural Policy (BFAP) Board of Directors member Professor Ferdi Meyer on Wednesday. He was speaking at the launch of the BFAP Agricultural Outlook 2019-2028. "Growth in the future is not that strong," he pointed out. "We [South Africa] alone are a small share of the total [global agricultural] economy. ... Growth is not handed to us."
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06 August 2019
Daily Maverick
A tangible move has to be made to change the increasingly dangerous conditions which so threaten a constitutional crisis. A good start would be a deliberate and meaningful commitment to the implementation of the Presidential Panel on Land Reform’s recommendations, which may well tilt the balance in favour of the constitutionalists in this country as opposed to the populists and their opportunistic discourse.
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02 August 2019
BusinessDay
ANC’s trade-off with the Zulu monarch keeps it in power in KZN at a huge cost
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03 August 2019
IOL
The sad part is that King Goodwill Zwelithini gets R66m in the first place, while other kings make do with far more humble state stipends, writes Kevin Ritchie.
Land ownership, Land related laws, Traditional leadership read moreKZN government establishes committee to resolve farming tensions https://www.iol.co.za/mercury/news/kzn-government-establishes-committee-to-resolve-farming-tensions-57bb0c25-c46f-4eff-baab-a0e0986848d2
OPINIONISTA: Swedish prize awarded to South Africa’s S’bu Zikode is a milestone for the grassroots movement https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2021-04-13-swedish-prize-awarded-to-south-africas-sbu-zikode-is-a-milestone-for-the-grassroots-movement/
World: New Zealand introduces climate change law for financial firms in world first https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-04-14-new-zealand-introduces-climate-change-law-for-financial-firms-in-world-first/
More evidence of why Covid requires a global solution which leaves no-one behind whether they can afford to pay or not https://apnews.com/article/india-coronavirus-surge-vaccine-supply-55b7313c688b9a4c05a68a9c13e499da
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