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25 October 2022
Custom contested
By Ramabina Mahapa Xolobeni and Ingonyama Trust judgments redefine the relationship between mining and land laws, placing clear obligations on the mining industry and clarifying what compliance with the law means under Zulu customary law. Two judgments in SA courts have been game-changers for communities living on land under the authority of traditional leaders. The … Continue reading
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17 October 2022
Mail & Guardian
The Prevention of Illegal Eviction from and Unlawful Occupation of Land Act requires only that evictees be provided with alternative accommodation
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20 September 2022
PoliticsWeb
Will establish a Land Court with its judgement appealable to the full bench of that Court to deal with all land-related matters
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26 July 2021
Corruption Watch
Corruption Watch has made a written submission on the Land Court bill of 2021, The organisation has focused on several vulnerabilities in the bill's provisions, including no effective mechanisms that reduce the scope for corruption, and unclear indications as to how it will address existing systemic hurdles that make it difficult for land claimants to obtain land restitution. Download our submission for the full details.
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23 May 2021
Daily Maverick
No serious conversation can be had about South Africa’s Constitution if it is divorced from the history of how it came to be, the process through which it was drafted, and by whom. By avoiding history, we are avoiding complexity and by avoiding complexity we are avoiding reality.
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12 May 2021
BusinessTech
Human settlements, water and sanitation minister Lindiwe Sisulu plans to introduce the Housing Consumer Protection Bill to the national assembly.
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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,'
Land related laws read moreZimbabwe: Eight years on, authorities yet to give update on the disappeared journalist and pro-democracy activist https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/03/zimbabwe-eight-years-on/
Climate change: Latest IPCC report highlights the critical need to transform agrifood systems https://africasciencenews.org/climate-change-latest-ipcc-report-highlights-the-critical-need-to-transform-agrifood-systems/
The Museveni regime, which has been in power for the past 36 years, is no stranger to cracking down on dissenting voices and detaining critics. Now climate change activists are targeted for critiquing the EACOP oil pipeline
https://africanarguments.org/2023/03/enemies-of-the-state-uganda-targets-activists-spearheading-fight-against-controversial-eacop-pipeline/
The first water UN Water Conference in 40 years seeks to avert a global water crisis. But for farmers in Eastern Africa facing catastrophic food insecurity or pastoralists who have lost over eleven million animals since 2020, the crisis is already here.
https://climate-diplomacy.org/magazine/environment/risk-informed-water-governance-critical-tool-avert-hunger-and-conflict
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