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09 December 2024
Food for Mzansi
Marking 30 years since the Restitution of Land Rights Act, minister Mzwandile Nyhontsho vowed to combat corruption in land reform.
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25 November 2024
Daily Maverick
We should be tackling poverty by enabling home ownership and creating livelihood opportunities to utilise land reform and restoration as engines of socioeconomic development.
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19 August 2024
Mail & Guardian
Conditions were ‘atrocious’ and ‘appalling’
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13 August 2024
EWN
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.
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07 August 2024
Daily Maverick
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.
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25 April 2024
Daily Maverick
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.
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05 April 2024
The Citizen
Responding to parliamentary questions by the EFF’s Mzwanele Manyi, Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development Thoko Didiza revealed how much will be spent on land issues after May’s national elections.
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10 March 2024
Daily Maverick
A company formed by the sons of farmworkers who benefited from the land redistribution programme had to go to court to have land returned to them after a government official decided to give two of their farms to other beneficiaries.
Redistribution read moreThree farmers have been successful in their bid to halt the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform (DALRRD) from allocating portions of a Beaufort West farm to any other person pending the approval of a 30-year farming lease they are to be granted.
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11 March 2024
Rhodes University
In a rare spotlight on South Africa's ongoing struggle with land reform, Rhodes University’s Law Faculty, as part of the University’s 120th-anniversary celebrations, hosted a public lecture in collaboration with the Black Lawyers Association student charter.
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