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Card image 18 March 2025 The Citizen

Three more suspects appear in court over R9.3m land claim fraud

The department confirmed that the newly arrested suspects are relatives of the senior manager at the centre of the investigation.

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Card image 23 March 2025 Cape Argus

Forcefully removed: William and Joy’s journey back to the Promise Land after apartheid

After decades of displacement, William and Joy Francis are on the brink of reclaiming their ancestral home in Kirstenbosch, a journey marked by love, loss, and resilience

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22 March 2025 IOL

Land Reform minister reveals nearly 5 000 land claims rejected across provinces

In a revealing parliamentary response, Land Reform Minister Nyhontso details how over 4 700 land claims were rejected across South Africa's nine provinces, highlighting critical challenges in the nation's land restitution programme.

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Card image 12 February 2025 GroundUp

Bishopscourt land claimants to finally break ground on housing development

This comes 20 years after their claim was officially granted

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12 February 2025 Daily Maverick

Tongaat Hulett granted interdict in battle over disputed land amid community claims and tensions

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Card image 15 October 2024 Mail & Guardian

Lebogang Seale’s book tracks a century of injustice in his family’s quest for land

One Hundred Years of Dispossession: My Family’s Quest to Reclaim Our Land traces his family's ongoing struggle to strengthen their restitution case

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Card image 02 October 2024 DFA

People are opting for money instead of land

Minister of Land Reform and Rural Development, Mzwanele Nyhontso said the trend of opting for money feeds into the narrative that black people cannot farm, which is not true. Minister of Land Reform and Rural Development, Mzwanele Nyhontso has expressed worry over families insisting on receiving cash lump sums instead of land. File picture: Ayanda […]

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12 September 2024 Polity

One Hundred Years of Dispossession: My family’s quest to reclaim our land – Lebogang Seale

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01 September 2024 Daily Maverick

Inexperience, chaos, infighting lead to collapse of KZN land claims dreams

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01 September 2024 Daily Maverick

‘We don’t have jobs’: Post-1996 farmland restitution projects sow a costly legacy of failure

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