Progress and challenges facing TRANCRAA communities

The Portfolio Committee on Rural Development and Land Affairs received a briefing from the Department of Land Reform and Rural Development on the progress and challenges facing communities affected by the Transformation of Certain Rural Areas Act (TRANCRAA), No 94 of 1998.

Women have fewer rights over land ownership than men in rural South Africa, study finds

The report by the Commission for Gender Equality says while the country’s Constitution and laws aim to fight discrimination based on sex and race, cultural norms make this difficult.

How do I transfer ownership of a property built on land in the tribal area?

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Land Reform: What we really should be talking about and why

Land Reform: What we really should be talking about and why. Read this blog post by PLAAS here.

Government’s ‘consultation’ on communal land tenure just a tick-box exercise

Developing land tenure legislation is a difficult job to get right — especially given the legacy of intractable problems inherited from apartheid. The Gauteng consultation did not seem genuine: it lasted only three hours.

Solution needed for SA’s ‘complex’ communal land tenure

Almost a third of South Africa’s population lives in remote rural areas on communal, subsistence agricultural land.

ANC accuse Cape Chamber’s Janine Myburgh of scaremongering over land rights

The ANC in the province has accused the president of the Cape Chamber of Commerce Industry Janine Myburgh of scaremongering on the proposed amendment to the Upgrading of Land Tenure Rights Act.

David-and-Goliath battle looms over land rights

Consult or consent? A new law could allow government and traditional authorities to hand over mining and other development rights without the approval of the communities that inhabit the land

The stop-gap law on land rights in former homelands was due to expire in 1997. It was just renewed again.

Parliament thought it would take a year to come up with a longer-term solution to people who don't have title deeds or other formal property protection. That was more than two decades ago.

Reading the Promised Land: An Alternative to the Report of the Presidential Advisory Panel on Land Reform and Agriculture