Land reform – the path towards equitable development

Concern about the concentration of property and rights to natural resources is prompting calls for the redistribution of land, fishing

Unpacking the challenges of land reform in South Africa: a 30-year struggle for success

Mpumalanga association reaps land reform success

The Giba CPA in Hazyview has become a model of successful land reform, employing over 100 people and exporting bananas internationally.

CPA success stories offer new hope for unemployed youth

Despite ongoing challenges in land reform, many young South Africans are using CPA land to create jobs and change lives.

MInister vows to root out corruption in land reform

Marking 30 years since the Restitution of Land Rights Act, minister Mzwandile Nyhontsho vowed to combat corruption in land reform.

Land reform a crucial test for minister Nyhontso amid ANC’s legacy of broken promises

We should be tackling poverty by enabling home ownership and creating livelihood opportunities to utilise land reform and restoration as engines of socioeconomic development.

NSPCA uncovers thousands of dead fish at government-backed fish farm in Mpumalanga

Conditions were ‘atrocious’ and ‘appalling’

Government boosts land reform funding, but 2 million hectares remain unreleased

The South African government has accumulated over 2 million hectares of land, which remains unreleased to beneficiaries with title deeds or long-term tradable leases.

There are 2 million hectares of state farmland sitting idle for black owners

In his journey across the heartlands of the Karoo, Wandile Sihlobo meets with some of the black farmers who are still waiting for title deeds on land currently owned by the state. And he laments the condition of failing municipal infrastructure that he encounters along the way.

30 years of democracy — Umkhonto weSizwe soldier trades tireless activism for farming

Thirty years into democracy, Daily Maverick spoke to three anti-apartheid activists about how they found their way to the land from Umkhonto weSizwe, the United Democratic Front and the ANC-linked Marxist Worker Tendency. Part One focuses on Errol April.