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12 February 2021
News 24
It has been 55 years since residents were forcibly removed by the apartheid government from District Six in Cape Town, and now claimants are finally gearing up to return home.
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18 January 2021
Daily Maverick
Contrary to claims in a 2019 Daily Maverick article, Mkambathi on the Eastern Cape Wild Coast is neither being sold nor privatised. Quite the contrary: what is being negotiated is a lease of huge financial value to both the community and the government, with the private investor taking all the risks – and conservation being the winner.
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26 December 2020
North Coast Courier
Dunn, a hunter and businessman, became a great friend of King Cetshwayo, who made him the province's only white chief. In keeping with tradition, such status came with tracts of land, cattle and permission to marry many women.
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16 December 2020
Daily Maverick
Once it was reputed to be the biggest citrus farm in the southern hemisphere, but it’s now on the brink of collapse. Lucas Ledwaba captured the Zebediela Citrus Estate’s dilapidated state in pictures as efforts are underway to restore its shine.
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09 December 2020
New Frame
In this timely history, John Laband carefully examines how white settlers in the Cape systematically dispossessed African societies of their land.
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07 December 2020
Daily Vox
In the heart of the former inner-city residential area and in an old Methodist church in Cape Town, the District Six Museum has been a defense against forgetting since 1994. “There is very little wholesale acknowledgement of the impact of the Group Areas Act on South Africa. So the fact that if you’re going to […]
Restitution read moreWell managed land reform projects create value for the poor, balances relationships between private sector organisations and communities and promote sustainable rural development.
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26 November 2020
IOL
The Prudhoe community in the Eastern Cape have finally claimed victory as the Constitutional Court awarded them the restitution of 26 farms.
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25 November 2020
GroundUp
Constitutional Court rules in favour of Prudhoe community in the Eastern Cape
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16 November 2020
IOL
The fact that the City is using the 2012 plan as a point of departure for our ongoing engagements with residents in refining a Local Spatial Development Framework for District Six demonstrates our commitment to social justice and redress.
Restitution read moreSir David Attenborough’s warning to the Security Council:
“If we continue on our current path, we will face the collapse of everything that gives us our security: food production, access to fresh water, habitable ambient temperature, & ocean food chains.”
https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/02/1085452
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Judgment reserved in Drakenstein emergency housing case https://www.groundup.org.za/article/judgment-reserved-drakenstein-emergency-housing-case/
The nutritional status of South Africa’s children is deteriorating. One in four children under the age of five is stunted, a sign of chronic undernutrition that has remained unchanged for 20 years.
“The slow violence of malnutrition” https://www.groundup.org.za/article/south-africas-young-children-face-twin-nutrition-crises/
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